I really feel that I've been unjustly exorcised from the story of psychedelic music. Genesis P-Orridge More Quotes by Genesis P-Orridge More Quotes From Genesis P-Orridge People say, ''I'm a woman trapped in a man's body'' or ''I'm a man trapped in a woman's body,'' but I say ''I'm trapped in a body.'' Genesis P-Orridge bodymenpeople Art and life really are the same, and both can only be about a spiritual journey, a path towards a re-union with a supreme creator, with god, with the divine; and this is true no matter how unlikely, how strange, how unorthodox, one's particular life path might appear to one's self or others at any given moment. Genesis P-Orridge being-yourselfspiritualart And when in doubt, be extreme. Genesis P-Orridge when-in-doubtextremesdoubt Our identity is fictional, written by parents, relatives, education, society. Genesis P-Orridge writtenparentidentity After thee accumulation of too much history we have lost our innocence, we cannot easily believe in any explanations. We describe rather than feel, we touch rather than explore, we lust rather than adore. Genesis P-Orridge too-muchlustbelieve Even as a teenager we got interested in the Beats, Dada, and Surrealism, and so on. What drew us to those was that their lives were their art. It wasn't something they did separately. Reading biographies of artists of that kind was what was fascinating to me, more than the stuff they made. We became convinced that life and art is really the same thing. Genesis P-Orridge teenagerreadingart All great music is in one way or another psychedelic. Genesis P-Orridge great-musicpsychedelicway the voluntary relinquishing of responsibility for our lives and our actions is one of the greatest enemies of our time. Genesis P-Orridge our-actionsresponsibilityenemy Industrial culture? There has been a phenomena; I don't know whether it's strong enough to be a culture. I do think what we did has had a reverberation right around the world and back. Genesis P-Orridge strongculturethinking An exact science is one that admits loss. Genesis P-Orridge exact-sciencesloss Change comes from reflection. Genesis P-Orridge changereflection Once you believe things are permanent, you're trapped in a world without doors. Genesis P-Orridge youdoorsbelieveworld We should always be looking for the unity in things instead of the differences. Genesis P-Orridge lookingalwaysunitydifferences I am so sick and tired of being told what I'm supposed to look like! Genesis P-Orridge i-amlooktiredsick I think one of the gorgeous things about TG is that we will go from something amazingly serious and important and significant in terms of the world and life, and then do something ludicrous and absurd. Genesis P-Orridge thinkseriouslifeworld Humanity is a virus. Genesis P-Orridge virushumanity You have an absolute right to translate poetry in any form with any sound. It's all up for grabs. Genesis P-Orridge rightyoupoetrysound When the blues came out, it was something pure and undefined, but when all these white groups got hold of it, it became something else that didn't sound anything like the original. So you had Led Zeppelin doing their thing, which had come all the way from the blues. Genesis P-Orridge doingyouwhiteway When in doubt, make no sense. No sense is good. And nonsense is good. Genesis P-Orridge no-sensegoodnonsensedoubt We live in this miraculous technological environment, and yet our human behaviour is still governed by basic impulses from prehistoric times. Genesis P-Orridge livehumanenvironmentbehaviour
