Jeff Noon quotes
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“Anything can become music if listened to long enough”
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“Expect to feel pleasure. Knowledge is sexy. Expect to feel pain. Knowledge is torture.”
-- Jeff NoonSource : Jeff Noon (2012). “Vurt”, p.80, Pan Macmillan
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“We have flooded ourselves with the media in all its many forms. Our minds are now open to signals. We have become aerials.”
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“A bird painted not with beauty but with all the dirt and wounds collected in a long hard life, in battle, in love, with torn feathers and a busted leg and a chipped beak and one of its eyes half closed; and yet a bird of deeper loveliness for all of that.”
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“Form is the host; content is the virus.”
-- Jeff NoonSource : "Portrait of the Author as a Vurtual Man: Jeff Noon talks to London Calling’s Tom Hunter". London Calling Interview, londoncalling.com. August 11, 2012.
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“I hate that rule that says write about what you know, it leads to too many British novels about marriages going slightly wrong. Write about what you don't know, just act as though you do.”
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“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”
Source : Aaron Copland (1959). “The pleasures of music”
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Source : Aaron Copland, Richard Kostelanetz (2004). “Aaron Copland: A Reader : Selected Writings 1923-1972”, p.32, Psychology Press
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“Is there a meaning to music? Yes. Can you state in so many words what the meaning is? No.”
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“If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.”
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“The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.”
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