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Genesis P-Orridge Quotes
Genesis P-Orridge Quotes
Genesis P-Orridge
English
Musician
Born:
Feb 22
,
1950
Always
Me
Music
People
World
You
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When in doubt, make no sense. No sense is good. And nonsense is good.
Genesis P-Orridge
Good
Sense
Doubt
No Sense
Make
Nonsense
When In Doubt
Change comes from reflection.
Genesis P-Orridge
Change
Reflection
When the blues came out, it was something pure and undefined, but when all these white groups got hold of it, it became something else that didn't sound anything like the original. So you had Led Zeppelin doing their thing, which had come all the way from the blues.
Genesis P-Orridge
You
Pure
White
Else
Way
Out
Something
Something Else
Had
Undefined
Come
Like
Became
Got
Sound
Doing
Came
Led
Led Zeppelin
Blues
Hold
Anything
Which
Original
Groups
Zeppelin
Thing
We live in this miraculous technological environment, and yet our human behaviour is still governed by basic impulses from prehistoric times.
Genesis P-Orridge
Live
Our
Miraculous
Environment
Still
Governed
Times
Behaviour
Human
Impulses
Human Behaviour
Prehistoric
Basic
Technological
The body is simply the suitcase that carries us around.
Genesis P-Orridge
Suitcase
Carries
Simply
Around
Us
Body
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.
Genesis P-Orridge
Life
Work
Wisdom
Relationship
Understanding
Fall
Other
Way
Easy
Easy Way
Favours
Mental
Habits
Day-To-Day
Terms
Also
Greater
Greater Understanding
Any
Crave
Us
Really
Navigate
Each
Growing
Deeper
Things
Biological
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.
Genesis P-Orridge
Memories
Mind
Way
Input
Output
Identity
Brain
Person
Human
Human Body
Sensory
Body
The great irony was that the punks were more conservative and narrow-minded and musically bigoted that anyone else.
Genesis P-Orridge
Great
Conservative
Else
Musically
More
Narrow-Minded
Were
Irony
Anyone
Anyone Else
Bigoted
My artwork is in order to seduce people into thinking.
Genesis P-Orridge
People
Thinking
Seduce
Artwork
Order
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.
Genesis P-Orridge
You
Change
World
Few
Strategy
Every
Way
Parallel
Look
How
Years
Same
Your
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.
Genesis P-Orridge
Time
Lie
Remember
Made
Tree
Beneath
Digging
Incredibly
Seven
Everything
Would
Had
Remember When
Puzzling
Hours
Massively
Felt
Always
Go
Exhilarating
Cave
Same
Six
Same Time
Happened
Hole
Even
Tomb
Meditating
Everyone is telling the truth all of the time... well, it's just that times change.
Genesis P-Orridge
Truth
Time
Change
Everyone
Telling
Telling The Truth
Well
Times
Just
Change is not a linear process; it's an all-encompassing process, and it's alive in different ways.
Genesis P-Orridge
Change
Ways
Alive
Linear
Different
Process
Different Ways
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!
Genesis P-Orridge
Day
Me
Every Day
People
Suits
Every
Everyone
Except
Scholarship
Voluntarily
Aristocratic
Ties
Because
Were
Very
Wore
University
Mick Jagger is 70 and still singing 'Satisfaction' every concert. That would drive me insane.
Genesis P-Orridge
Me
Drive
Singing
Every
Insane
Would
Concert
Still
Mick Jagger
Jagger
Satisfaction
Once you have a hit, it just becomes another old song.
Genesis P-Orridge
You
Song
Old
Once
Another
Becomes
Hit
Just
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.
Genesis P-Orridge
People
Space
Status
Status Quo
Something
Shatter
Order
Wanted
Whereas
Quo
Themselves
Us
Create
Aspire
Choose
Presented
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.
Genesis P-Orridge
Music
Made
Rejection
Incredible
Took
Alienation
Finally
Way
He
Industrial
Rock
How
Encapsulate
Traditional
Get
Form
Public
Found
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.
Genesis P-Orridge
Art
People
Path
Everything
Draw
Something
Point
Take
New
Around
Impression
Commonplace
Them
Really
Whole
Sudden
All culture, all important culture, is always linked to how people express and experience being alive.
Genesis P-Orridge
Culture
Experience
People
Important
Alive
Always
How
Linked
Being
Express
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.
Genesis P-Orridge
Good
People
Stupid
Radical
Corporate
About
Something
Touching
Point
Good Thing
Miss
Precious
Special
Who
Thing
To be an 'artist' is as much a calling from and to a divine service as becoming a physician, nurse, priest, shaman, or healer.
Genesis P-Orridge
Service
Physician
Nurse
Divine
Priest
Healer
Calling
Becoming
Artist
Much
Everything in our world tends to be built on either/ors, and either/ors inevitably make enemies.
Genesis P-Orridge
World
Enemies
Our
Everything
Our World
Tends
Make
Built
Inevitably
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.
Genesis P-Orridge
You
Culture
Writing
Recording
Tools
Something
Main
Know
Sound
Up
Video
Cut
Film
A lot of the conceptualists and the prestige galleries are debasing themselves in presentations which have little else to them but the presentation.
Genesis P-Orridge
Else
Prestige
Lot
Which
Little
Them
Galleries
Themselves
Presentation
'Pagan Day' was Alex Fergusson's idea. It was him that encouraged me to start making music again and start Psychic TV.
Genesis P-Orridge
Music
Day
Me
Psychic
TV
Idea
Him
Making
Encouraged
Again
Pagan
Start
Alex
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