People would say, 'Girls don't play hockey. Girls don't skate. ' I would say, 'Watch this. '
What was great about the 50s is that for one brief moment - maybe, say, six weeks - nobody understood art.
Any professional knows that the flute and the piano is a boring combination. All you've got to arrive at is a kind of typical gestural crap, right? You might agree, though you wouldn't call it gestural crap
We do not hear what we hear. . . , only what we remember.
To me, I took a militant attitude towards sounds. I wanted sounds to be a metaphor, that they could be as free as a human being might be free. That was my idea about sound. It still is, that they should breathe. . . not to be used for the vested interest of an idea. I feel that music should have no vested interests, that you shouldn't know how it's made, that you shouldn't know if there's a system, that you shouldn't know anything about it. . . except that it's some kind of life force that to some degree really changes your life. . . if you're into it.
Music can imply the infinite if enough things depart from the norm far enough. Strange "abnormal" events can lead to the feeling that anything can happen, and you have a music with no boundaries.
The tragedy of music is that it begins with perfection.
And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.
Your words and thoughts have physical power.
Like all bad drivers, he thought he was the best driver in the world. [husband Henry Andrews]
That is the most confusing and insane thing to me, when people get offended on behalf of another group.