The human body is not the person. Identity is the way the brain operates; it's memories, it's sensory input and output. The mind is the person. 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 body men people 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-yourself spiritual art And when in doubt, be extreme. Genesis P-Orridge when-in-doubt extremes doubt Our identity is fictional, written by parents, relatives, education, society. Genesis P-Orridge written parent identity 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-much lust believe 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 teenager reading art All great music is in one way or another psychedelic. Genesis P-Orridge great-music psychedelic way the voluntary relinquishing of responsibility for our lives and our actions is one of the greatest enemies of our time. Genesis P-Orridge our-actions responsibility enemy 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 strong culture thinking An exact science is one that admits loss. Genesis P-Orridge exact-sciences loss Change comes from reflection. Genesis P-Orridge change reflection Once you believe things are permanent, you're trapped in a world without doors. Genesis P-Orridge you doors believe world We should always be looking for the unity in things instead of the differences. Genesis P-Orridge looking always unity differences I am so sick and tired of being told what I'm supposed to look like! Genesis P-Orridge i-am look tired sick 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 think serious life world Humanity is a virus. Genesis P-Orridge virus humanity You have an absolute right to translate poetry in any form with any sound. It's all up for grabs. Genesis P-Orridge right you poetry sound 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 doing you white way When in doubt, make no sense. No sense is good. And nonsense is good. Genesis P-Orridge no-sense good nonsense doubt I really feel that I've been unjustly exorcised from the story of psychedelic music. Genesis P-Orridge story feel psychedelic music
