"Openminded" quotes.
(A voyage of discovery, in which we shall visit many strange
foreign lands, with strange foreign peoples, and still
stranger customs- George Frazer)
Aeschylus
Success is man's god. (Choephorae)
Klaus
Schulze
about
Techno:
"Music goes on. Develops, changes, old sounds and rhythms
come back, vanish and come back again. A few new things or
long forgotten things are added. Every few years a new
generation of doers and customers is ready to join that
game. Of course they want their very own music, different
from the older people's music. This goes constantly on and
on... At least in Germany, in Europe, the recent trend is
called Techno. I do my very own music since 1972. I found my
very own style very early. Since then I've seen many musical
fashions and trends coming and going. I still play "the
same" . Of course I notice all these many trends. Some I do
like, some not. And partly I consider them, but only if I
like them and it fits to my own musical world. Some of the
Techno stuff I do like, I play this pure electronic rhythmic
music since many years anyway. So I didn't had to change a
lot. All I had to do was to put a bit more bass onto my
music, put my rhythm a bit more in the foreground. I was a
rock drummer in my early years. Since 1974 I use rhythm,
drums, and sequencers in my concerts and on my albums. I
remember when I used for the first time very heavy digital
computer rhythms on my album Dig It (1980); the hard-core
Schulze fans went furious. A few years later it was
accepted, and all second and third generation electronic
musicians used it also. When "Techno" was new, most
"electronic" fans hated it. Now, a few years later, solo
rhythm computers and pure rhythm are the thing! "
(sender
: Karl
CR/TR)
Daniel
Paul
Schreber
(Memoirs of
My Nervous Illness):
"I cannot of course count upon being fully understood
because these things are dealt with which cannot be
expressed in human language; they exceed human
understanding. Nor can I maintain that everything is
irrefutably certain even for me: much remains only
presumption and probability. After all I too am only a
human being and therefore limited by the confines of human
understanding; but one thing I am certain of, namely that I
have come infinitely closer to the truth than human beings
who have not received divine
revelation".
(sender
:
Psychonight)
Bob
Moog
on modular
Moog synthesizer:
"My very first prototype (early 1964) consisted of two VCO's
and one VCA, period. With that amount of stuff, a tape
recorder, and some simple mixing and equalizing equipment,
you could make a variety of new sounds that seemed
absolutely amazing at the time. Next came ADSR envelope
generators, envelope followers, and a simple keyboard
controller. The VCF didn't come for another couple of
years".
(sender
: Andrea
M.)
Jeff
Mills
on the notion
of time:
I think that the notion that we generally perceive time may
not be the only option we have on how to define its meaning
and how it works. For instance, scientists believe that the
understand how time works is based on the parameters of
their scientific logic. But, what are the chances and
possibilities that their parameters are incorrect or have
been mislead due to the lack knowledge or to accept
something that is not logical. Most, if not all of us live
on 24 hourly sets, a day. We believe that all directions
(North, South, East and West) are equal as the universe
expands evenly, Up is up and down is
down.
(sender
: Dax Dan
81)
Richard
D. James (aka
Aphex Twin) about live show:
"I use my laptop computer for everything now, I've got one
effects unit controlled by the computer as well. I think the
next shows will just be the laptop, and a 2 channel
mixer."
On Steinberg's ReCycle:
"Yeah, it'squite a wicked program. The most useful thing
about it is it creates a bank on your sampler, and gives it
loads of sample names. And that saves you an hour, at least.
You can cut something up into, like, 90 samples, and
transfer it over SCSI in a minute. That would take two hours
normally. I might play a violin or a trumpet scale into Pro
Tools -- every note I can think of -- and then bang it into
ReCycle, chop it up into little bits, bang it into the
sampler, and you've got a complete bank of sounds in your
sampler in about five minutes".
(sender
: Ellen
-TX-)
Edgar Froese
(Tangerine
Dream)
"There have been moments of frustration, when one is unable
to optimally translate mental ideas into audible structures.
But this has nothing to do with boredom. It is causally
impossible for music to be boring - perhaps there are
untalented composers, who put the buildingblocks of sound
together in a boring
fashion".
(sender
: Bill59
Seq)
Albert
Einstein
When I
examined myself and my methods of thought, I came to the
conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me
than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.-
-On Tetraktys of Pythagoras:
I swear by him who the Tetraktys found, whence all our
wisdom springs and which contains Perennial Nature's
fountain, cause and root.
Max
Planck
The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and
conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal
principle as he knows it will never enrich his science by
the addition of a new idea. -
(sender
: Jean-Philippe A. -from Aix-
)
Bertrand
Russell
What we need is not the will to believe but the will to find
out.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits
of the world.
(sender
: Max
NRG)
Jean
Racine
" Une extreme justice est souvent une injure "
Aristotle
The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for
what people think.
Alfred
North Whitehead
Almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of
foolishness when they are first produced.
(sender : Tatj
ML 154)
George
Bernard Shaw
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
(sender
:
Moustache46)
Johann
Wolfgang von
Goethe
Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, opportunity
transient. (Wilhelm Meister)
(sender :
Rodrigo
H.)
Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe
The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these
lines what does not stand written in them, but is
nevertheless implied, will be able to form some conception.
-
(sender :
Rodrigo
H.)
Aeschylus
Success is man's god. (Choephorae)
R. M. Pirsig
Il Buddha, il Divino, dimora nel circuito di un calcolatore
o negli ingranaggi del cambio di una moto con lo stesso agio
che in cima a una montagna o nei petali di un fiore".
(sender : Pink
Rain)
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