Tag: Quote

A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.

As I’ve said many times, the future is already here. It’s just not very evenly distributed.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

To be a star, unto yourself,
you must shine your own light,
foloow your own path,
and ignore the darness;—
for that is when stars shine brightest.

This is about the Mothers of Invention. We have watched them grow, and with their growth, we hopefully have grown. Their honesty has offended some and been provocative to many, but in any case, their performances have had a real effect on their audiences.

The Mothers’ music is very new, and as their music is new, so is the intention of their music. As much as the Mothers put into their music, we must bring to it. The Mothers, and what they represent as a group has attracted all of the outcasts, the pariahs, the people who are angry and afraid and contemptuous of the existing social structure. The danger lies in the “Freak Out” becoming an excuse instead of a reason. An excuse implies an end, a reason a beginning.Being that the easiest way is consistently more attractive than the harder way, the essential thing that makes their “Freak Out” audiences different constitutes their sameness. A freak is not a freak if ALL are freaks. “Freaking Out” should presuppose an active freedom, freedom meaning liberation from the control of some other person or persons. Unfortunately, reaction seems to have taken place of action. We SHOULD be as satisfied listening to the Mothers perform from a concert stage. If we could channel the energy expended in “Freaking Out” physically into “Freaking Out” intellectually, we might possibly be able to create something concrete out of the ideological twilight of bizarre costumes and being seen being bizarre. Do we really listen? And if we really listen, do we really think? Freedom of thought, conversely, brings an awesome responsibility. Looking and acting eccentric IS NOT ENOUGH.

A mad tea-party is valid only as satire, commenting ironically, and ending in its beginning, in that it is only a trick of interpretation. It is not creation, and it IS NOT ENOUGH.

What WE must try to do then, is not only comment satirically on what’s wrong, but try to CHANGE what’s wrong. The Mothers are trying.

Suzy Creamcheese.

When we look on an icon of a saint–and this is true for every icon of a saint–we venerate not the panel or the paint but the pious and visible figure.