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Song Quotes by Genesis P-Orridge

9 Song quotes by Genesis P-Orridge

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If you’re curious about how Genesis P-Orridge thinks about Song, this short set offers a direct line into their perspective. Though brief, each line captures a facet of their experimental edge, giving you a solid starter before diving deeper into their broader work.

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I've always felt that all the music I've made is psychedelic, including Throbbing Gristle.

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Once you have a hit, it just becomes another old song.

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I really feel that I've been unjustly exorcised from the story of psychedelic music.

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A band can be so much more than just a way to play songs.

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All great music is in one way or another psychedelic.

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The great irony was that the punks were more conservative and narrow-minded and musically bigoted that anyone else.

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Within TG, we liberated the use of the lyric forever. There was no longer a taboo on what could be discussed in…

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In the old days, maybe we'd come across Captain Beefheart, buy a record, go, 'This is great!' and notice how his music…

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“In order to do something that seems new, you have to strip away everything that's traditional, take away all the things that…

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I really feel that I've been unjustly exorcised from the story of psychedelic music.

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My father gave me a copy of 'Seven Years in Tibet,' and that's what turned me on to Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism.

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I have no idea what's going on in the fashion industry.

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Writing is a recording that you can cut up and reassemble. Sound is something you can cut up and reassemble. Film, video - you…

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Change is not a linear process; it's an all-encompassing process, and it's alive in different ways.

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“When order is lost, time spits.”

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The biggest way to say, philosophically, you'll never be part of a war is to look completely the opposite of anyone in a war.

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Everything in our world tends to be built on either/ors, and either/ors inevitably make enemies.

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An exact science is one that admits loss.

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the voluntary relinquishing of responsibility for our lives and our actions is one of the greatest enemies of our time.

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Brian Jones had this really ethereal atmosphere around him.

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A lot of the conceptualists and the prestige galleries are debasing themselves in presentations which have little else to them but the presentation.

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I was born in Manchester, England.

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The status quo is presented as something to aspire to, whereas for us, the status quo was something we wanted to shatter in order…

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When the blues came out, it was something pure and undefined, but when all these white groups got hold of it, it became something…

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