Phill Niblock quotes

“No harmony. No melody. No rhythm. No bullshit.”
-- Phill Niblock

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“Aomori Water is a sound collage piece made in 1998, in Aomori Japan. I was in a residency with other artists. A Japanese sculptor was making a round house and wanted a sound piece to play in it. I recorded some very gentle waves lapping the beach, for the first part. And a very small mountain stream, flowing, for the second part. I layered 8 tracks. This was the first work that I did in ProTools.”
-- Phill Niblock

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“I started to listen to music and began collecting records around 1948. And it was fairly soon after that that hi-fi came about, so that it was possible to have really good sound - LPs and tapes and speaker systems. The whole thing came more or less at once.”
-- Phill Niblock

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“What we are now doing with the victory, and I agree with you if you condemn that and I condemn whole-heartedly the trivial bullshit it is to go after a man who makes a scientific breakthrough and all that we as women — organized women — do is to fret about his shirt?”

“I love the bullshit morning shows. They're so stupid but I love them.”

Source : "We Love America, and You Should, Too". Interview with James West and Ben Dreyfuss, www.motherjones.com. July 3, 2015.

“These corporations run our culture, and they riddle it with bullshit.”

“Atlantic reckoned we should use a top Yank producer and appointed one Eddie Kramer to the post. It turns out the guy was full of bullshit and couldn't produce a healthy fart.”

Source : Letter to a former band-mate in Fraternity, 'Uncle' John Ayres, c. 1979.

“I want a Zero Tolerance policy on All The Patriarchal Bullshit.”

Source : Caitlin Moran (2012). “How to Be a Woman”, p.10, Harper Collins

“But she couldn't dismiss easily his light touch with her. No pushing or pressing, none of that herding and corralling bullshit, unlike any of her old boyfriends. And maybe who you fell for and who you eventually loved wasn't rational, no matter how hard you tried to list pros and cons and sum the results. You couldn't think your way through it, not all the way. Maybe just the scent of somebody carried more weight than everything else put together.”

Source : Charles Frazier (2011). “Nightwoods: A Novel”, p.154, Random House

“God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.”

“Even the smallest daily chore can be humanized with the harmony of culture.”

“Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.”

“of rhythm is image / of image is knowing / of knowing there is / a construct”

Source : Charles Olson (1997). “Collected Prose”, p.124, Univ of California Press