- Nov 07, 2020
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- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Change is not a linear process; it's an all-encompassing process, and it's alive in different ways.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lady Jaye and I always thought black eyes were really sexy.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest way to say, philosophically, you'll never be part of a war is to look completely the opposite of anyone in a war.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the people at university were very aristocratic - except me, because I was on scholarship. And everyone there voluntarily wore suits and ties every day. And this was in the '60s!
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any artist should stay challenged as long as possible.
- Other
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- Nov 07, 2020
Humans have to realise they're not individuals but individual parts of the same organism, with responsibility to each other.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mick Jagger is 70 and still singing 'Satisfaction' every concert. That would drive me insane.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once you have a hit, it just becomes another old song.
- Nov 07, 2020
Ian Curtis was a young genius.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
The human body is not the person. Identity is the way the brain operates; it's memories, it's sensory input and output. The mind is the person.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Girls together getting dressed up can be really good fun.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were already, in 1981, bemoaning the fact that people were using certain accessorised ideas and images that they connected with us - sort of strange buildings and neo-fascist regimes and the 'dark side' of human culture.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The status quo is presented as something to aspire to, whereas for us, the status quo was something we wanted to shatter in order to create the space for people to choose for themselves.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think one of the gorgeous things about TG is that we will go from something amazingly serious and important and significant in terms of the world and life, and then do something ludicrous and absurd.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The punk rockers said, 'Learn three chords and form a band.' And we thought, 'Why learn any chords?' We wanted to make music like Ford made cars on the industrial belt. Industrial music for industrial people.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's incredible with Trent Reznor is how he took all the alienation and the rejection of traditional rock and found a way to encapsulate it in a form that made the public finally get industrial music.
- Conservative
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great irony was that the punks were more conservative and narrow-minded and musically bigoted that anyone else.
- Army
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father enlisted at the age of 17. He lied about his age because he wanted to ride the fastest motorbikes, which were with the British army.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lady Jaye dressed me in her clothes the first day we met. The love we had was so strong, we wished we could become one. Then we thought, 'Why shouldn't we?'
- Deciding
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't agree with Caitlyn Jenner deciding she is the spokesperson for trans people.
- Nov 07, 2020
I refer to myself as 'we.'
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's really the whole point of art - it's to take something commonplace and draw people on a path so that, all of a sudden, they have a new impression of everything around them.
- Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no idea what's going on in the fashion industry.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
All culture, all important culture, is always linked to how people express and experience being alive.
- Good Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The good thing about people who are corporate is that they're stupid. So they can be touching something that's precious or radical or special, and they miss the point completely.
- Fine
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Lady Gaga wears a meat dress, it's meant to be controversial, but then it turns into money, and it's all fine.
- Caring
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must embrace unity, not separation - sharing, go back to small, caring communities. Unity, not separation, is what has to happen.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My artwork is in order to seduce people into thinking.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every few years, you have to change your strategy. You have to look at how the world is mutating, and mutate. Not in the same way but in parallel.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has always been my belief that creation, the making of 'art' in any medium or combination of mediums, is a holy act.
- Divine
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be an 'artist' is as much a calling from and to a divine service as becoming a physician, nurse, priest, shaman, or healer.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a moment for everybody when you look at that picture of Jesus in the church and think, 'This doesn't totally make sense.' If God made everything, then who made God? We have no idea.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human beings are not capable of creating a thought that truly conceives of this existence. Nobody knows if we are really here, alive, or anything. It's a mystery.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything in our world tends to be built on either/ors, and either/ors inevitably make enemies.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is a recording that you can cut up and reassemble. Sound is something you can cut up and reassemble. Film, video - you know, the main tools of culture - can all be cut up and reassembled.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of the conceptualists and the prestige galleries are debasing themselves in presentations which have little else to them but the presentation.
- Magazine
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- Nov 07, 2020
I met William Burroughs in 1971. I got his address through a magazine and went to London to spend time with him.
- Doors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once you believe things are permanent, you're trapped in a world without doors.
- Confound
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we confound and break up the proposed unfolding the world impresses upon us, we can give ourselves the space to consider what we want to be as a species.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a little boy, I never felt comfortable with being human.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always felt that everything that happened was incredibly exhilarating and massively puzzling at the same time. I can even remember, when I was six or seven, digging a hole beneath a tree. And I would go into this tomb, this cave that I had made, and would lie there, meditating, for hours.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
England was very frustrating in the Seventies for anyone who was trying to wake up. It was visible in punk, in clothes, and in the revival of mods and rockers fighting. All kinds of things were going on that just weren't individual to myself.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would experiment with porridge - make porridge pancakes, fry porridge - and so friends started calling me 'Porridge.' But I got to feel that I was becoming a character, a work of fiction, in a sense.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Pagan Day' was Alex Fergusson's idea. It was him that encouraged me to start making music again and start Psychic TV.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People have become obsessed with the greed of celebrity and self-branding and wanting to be known and recognized and succeed in some way, and they're not prepared to share and help each other.
- Had
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- Nov 07, 2020
Brian Jones had this really ethereal atmosphere around him.
- Lady
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- Nov 07, 2020
Me and Lady Jaye hung out with Anita Pallenberg a few times in the house she lived in with Brian Jones.
- Intimacy
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the art world, sentimentality and intimacy and the emotive side of lives are considered very uncool. There's nervousness around intimacy.
- Inseparable
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life and art are inseparable.
- Nov 07, 2020
Pleasure is a cultural weapon. Use it wisely.
- Existence
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no distinction between reverence for existence and our senses and/or apathy.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very good friends with Ian Curtis from Joy Division. In fact, I was the last person he spoke with before he died.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always felt that all the music I've made is psychedelic, including Throbbing Gristle.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really feel that I've been unjustly exorcised from the story of psychedelic music.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in this miraculous technological environment, and yet our human behaviour is still governed by basic impulses from prehistoric times.
- Expensive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Haircuts are luxuries and, as such, should be as expensive as you can possibly afford.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
A real New Yorker is always someone who came here from somewhere else to avoid some kind of persecution, often sexual-preference based, or to be discovered in one of the infinite-though-no-longer-thriving alternative scenes, i.e. theater, music, dance, vaudeville, art, drag, or, in those of the greatest egos, to be 'the next Andy Warhol.'
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mind jumbles things, reassembles them, and plays with words without even being asked.
- Nov 07, 2020
Humanity is a virus.
- England
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Manchester, England.
- Demanded
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- Nov 07, 2020
With Thobbing Gristle, that era from '75 to '81 was a period when the politics of the time demanded anger and rage.
- Nov 07, 2020
There's always a way to say something that could seem really commonplace and make it special again.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even if the world outside is destroying itself and fragmented and paranoid and fearful, the job of the artist is to embrace and hold people and say, 'It's OK, be safe here.'
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father gave me a copy of 'Seven Years in Tibet,' and that's what turned me on to Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why is there no cure for cancer? Because the medical industry doesn't want one! And the pharmaceutical industry doesn't want one! Because they would lose too much money!
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once you're looking for wisdom, you have to look at why things happen and why people behave how they do: you cannot, in all conscience, accept any form of prejudice.
- Greater Understanding
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all fall into biological and mental habits. It's an easy way for us to navigate day-to-day work and life, but it also doesn't do us any favours in terms of growing into wisdom, growing into a greater understanding of each other, growing into a deeper relationship - all the things that we really crave.
- Curiosity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Curiosity is a great weapon for the artist.
- Nov 07, 2020
You have an absolute right to translate poetry in any form with any sound. It's all up for grabs.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone is telling the truth all of the time... well, it's just that times change.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020