Poetry
"It seems that I know that I know. What I would like to see is the 'I' that knows me when I know that I know that I know."
~Alan Watts
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
~Hunter S. Thompson
"The rhythmic tone teaches us that there is always an organic balance constantly
regulating itself, likened to natural systems. Natural systems balance
themselves and each aspect is vital to the integrity of the whole."
~Tito
"I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."
~Albert Einstein
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
~Albert Einstein
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is."
~Alan Watts
"Rhythm lies at the heart of play, and thus various rhythmic actions are the primordial forms of delight: bird songs, the chirping of crickets, the beating of hearts, the pulsation of laughter, the ecstatic loss of self in drumming and dancing."
~Alan Watts
"He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough. "
~Lao Tzu
"If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove."
~Timothy Leary
"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."
~Aldous Huxley
"If all matter vibrates then everything is music."
~Walter Mosley
"One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."
~Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Fashion is defined as something that will become very unpopular in the near future."
~Salvador Dali
"For most of human history we have searched for our place in the cosmos. Who are we? What are we? We find that we inhabit an insignificant planet of a hum-drum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgoten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxys than people. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions, and by the depth of our answers."
~Carl Sagan
"We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it's forever."
~Carl Sagan
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
~Carl Sagan
"If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much,
very still records, long after those records are finished, you might
find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room."
~Bill Laswell
"Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same."
~Bill Laswell
"Everything is electric, everything is electricity. Those pulses are no different that your pulse, your heartbeat and how you breathe. It's all connected."
~Bill Laswell
"If it wasn't natural, it wouldn't have happened."
~Bill Laswell
"You're not going to necessarily find the equivalent of Charlie Parker on a laptop, because we can't perceive that."
~Bill Laswell