Posts Tagged ‘haiku’

John Cage

January 27, 2010

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Misuse the past . . .  Old
ideas are frightened of
the silence of time

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Nature is boring.
Poetry is empty space.
Destroy lullabies.

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Death is mostly a
distraction . . . A sonorous
resurrection sleep

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Ignore beautiful
music . . . We need synthetic
inconsistency

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What I’m proposing
is a noise factory that
will quiet the mind

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Photoelectric
love is completely changing
the way we exist

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A passing truck is
more musical than Schoenberg . . .
Overtone structure!

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I don’t understand
the precise morphology
of entertainment

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Godard

January 26, 2010

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If by chance you can’t
afford a color TV
then buy LSD

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Beauty is not some
great moral idea . . . It is
eternal decay

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Art is composed of
style, fashion and money
jumbled together

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The human body
is a fraud both inside and
outside . . . Pity it

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Reality is
a difficult prostitute
and we are its pimps

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Cinema is a
secret kiss between painting
and literature

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