top of page
.png){kind=small}
"The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction."
Standard
Customized
More
"I like the idea of playing in unison with yourself."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."
Author Name
Personal Development
"You kind of alluded to it in your introduction. I mean, for the last 300 or so years, the exact sciences have been dominated by what is really a good idea, which is the idea that one can describe the natural world using mathematical equations."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The most important precedents deal with the whole idea of symbolic programming - the notion of setting up symbolic expressions that can represent anything one wants, and then having functions that operate on both their structure and content."
Author Name
Personal Development
"There's this idea that it has to be made in London. But we've got everything up here, and if you've got comics who are gifted because of where they're from, you shouldn't drag them away from that natural resource."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I mean, first of all, let me say whichever superhero first came up with the idea of wearing a cape, he wasn't really onto anything good. The number of times I'm treading on that damn thing or I throw a punch and it ends up covering my whole head. It's really not practical."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The Jug Band was exactly what I wanted to do, and it wasn't my idea."
Author Name
Personal Development
"When I need the idea, I can find it immediately. I have a horror of rewriting or deleting; the parts of my composition are carried in my head 'till I can write them down, even to the last note. Then I do not alter a jot."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"I am certainly not arguing for the de facto autonomy of the individual work, even though there is much to be said for making the attempt to see it in that light as one facet of the reception process."
Work
"My own position is, that it is largely up to the work itself to suggest the nature of these referential points without dimensions in and through the processes by which the distance between them is maintained."
Nature
"In my model, important interference phenomena arise when individual strata come into contact. These chaotic fluctuations are, I suppose, what my music is really 'about.'"
Music
"Naturally enough, I couldn't have foreseen the vast sea change which has come upon that scene as a result of German reunification and associated events."
Change
"Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other members of its stylistic 'family' in the world outside."
Work
"The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction."
Idea
"I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go."
Pretty
"If nothing is at risk, nothing is established."
Nothing
"So: we're all tired. Now what? Manuscripts written in Club Med?"
Now
"The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning."
Past
bottom of page