Thank you, Mr. Rochester, for your great kindness. I am strangely glad to get back again to you: and wherever you are is my home—my only home.
Loudspeakers should be made to be destroyed and. . . disposable.
If you put yourself in a situation of unpredictability and then find that it's completely possible to accept it, then you become an observer.
Take the classic experiment of using ordinary feedback: just take the output of something and feed it back into the input. Those of us who do that have had really rich experiences. And it is obvious that that line of experimentation can continue.
I am perfectly willing for my music to exist with somebody else's taste.
Performing is very much like cooking: putting it all together, raising the temperature.
The basic notion was the idea that the loudspeaker should have a voice which was unique and not just an instrument of reproduction, but an instrument unto itself.
I love flying buttresses!
I got Mary pregnant and man that's all she wrote. And for my 19th birthday, I got a union card and a factory coat.
. . . no one knows anything about a strike until he has seen it break down into its component parts of human beings.
I rarely lose my temper anymore.