Blixa Bargeld quotes

“I first of all have a problem with the term 'avant-garde'. Because it is a military term, it means the guard that runs before the rest of the soldiers. And if I want to see myself presented in military terms, I don't want to be part of that. I want to be one of the deserters. I want to be in the woods, maybe.”
-- Blixa Bargeld

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“After making music for twenty-six years I can't pretend I don't know anything about it anymore.”
-- Blixa Bargeld

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“When I started I would have called myself an artist but the discipline I chose in art was music and text.”
-- Blixa Bargeld

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“The audience is the source of the energy that I project back to them.”
-- Blixa Bargeld

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“When I started I didn't know anything about music. I came from an absolutely non-musical, non-artistic background.”
-- Blixa Bargeld

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“I do have an honorary professorship in Poetics from the Vienna Academy of Arts. So I have not gone completely unnoticed”
-- Blixa Bargeld

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“Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. . .he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste.”

“When the guy says go, you start to suffer - or you might as well not be out there. It's a small piece of your life, make it hurt.”

“I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.”

“Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung”

“From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.”

“There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.”

“When faced with structural injustice, especially in the form of oppressive military occupations, I have a tendency get a little worked up. So I was interested in learning more about the complicated conflict and decided I would lend some of my time and energy to do so.”

“Television in the 1960s & 70s had just as much dross and the programmes were a lot more tediously patronising than they are now. Memory truncates occasional gems into a glittering skein of brilliance. More television, more channels means more good television and, of course, more bad. The same equation applies to publishing, film and, I expect, sumo wrestling.”

“The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.”

“There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of it. More than a billion people. That means even if you're a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you.”

Source : A. Whitney Brown (1991). “The Big Picture: An American Commentary”, Harper Perennial