Gerard Cox quotes

“Concepts and intellectual devices or chops can't mask or conceal an underlying lack of emotive power.”
-- Gerard Cox

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“I come from a musical family. Mom was a piano teacher for a large portion of her life, and Dad is a saxophone hobbyist who grew up in England during the heyday of Tubby Hayes and Ronnie Scott. I started taking piano lessons from my Mom, but it's too easy to slack off with your parent, so she passed me on to a friend of hers, where I got more motivated to play music by playing pop hits and TV themes. I did some classical training, but I was always more into the really thematic stuff.”
-- Gerard Cox

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“The music is at its best when people are truly digging in.”
-- Gerard Cox

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“Theoretical concepts of music and extended techniques are more like seasoning to me; they're not the meal. I like outside music that still has a sense of forward motion and an emotive quality to it.”
-- Gerard Cox

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“Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.”

“I'm a fake intellectual.”

“Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap.”

“Only the [Catholic] Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly.”

“Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.”

“Travel breaks down a kind of inner structure we have. Stripped of our props, deprived of our masks, we are completely on the surface of ourselves.”

“The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.”

“Well, I happen to have a love of vocal reproduction devices.”

Source : Interview with David Wolinsky, tv.avclub.com. June 17, 2008.

“I finally chalked it up to the fact that the brain is truly an extraordinary device: more extraordinary than we can even guess.”

Source : Eben Alexander (2012). “Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

“There exists no culture in which adultery is unknown, no cultural device or code that extinguishes philandering.”