Top 62 Jarman's Quotes
#1. Everything worth knowing about the 1980s I learned from obsessively reading Bloom County collections when I was nine and Derek Jarman's diaries when I was twenty.
Ruadhan J. McElroy
#2. If Gucci handbags were still in fashion Greenaway would carry his scripts in them.
Derek Jarman
#3. If you can, trap me. I'll make a good patient because I was brought up in the environment of authority; it's going to be hard to pull me in though- I've been running all my life, playing truant. If you can capture me I'll buckle down. I'll loathe you in secret and put on a good face.
Derek Jarman
#4. It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble.
Joseph Jarman
#5. In 1993, I retired from the Art Ensemble of Chicago to devote myself full time to Buddhist studies and to the practice of Aikido.
Joseph Jarman
#6. Violet has the shortest wavelength of the spectrum. Behind it, the invisible ultraviolet. Roses are Red, Violets are Blue. Poor violet, violated for a rhyme.
Derek Jarman
#7. It's kind of strange to be in a band for ten years, because you've just given ten years of your lives to it from touring, and you don't know [or] even notice the passing of time.
Ryan Jarman
#8. Lotta people don't realize when you grow up with people, you have an affinity, a relationship you don't get with anyone else. After you're twenty years old, anyone you meet after that, it's different from the people you knew before.
Joseph Jarman
#9. I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying.
Derek Jarman
#10. I've been fortunate in that I've been forced to move from zone to zone.
Joseph Jarman
#11. When Christopher and Charles passed away, I was completely depressed, I felt rejected and real down, and so Roscoe invited me because he had this spirit of compassion, and we had gone to school together, were friends and everything.
Joseph Jarman
#12. On December 22, 1986, finding I was body positive, I set myself a target: I would disclose my secret and survive Margaret Thatcher. I did. Now I have set my sights on the millennium and a world where we are all equal.
Derek Jarman
#13. Well, actually, I don't consider myself a jazz legend or anything.
Joseph Jarman
#14. It's weird for me to try and write punk songs - I'm almost scared of it.
Gary Jarman
#15. The queers of the sixties, like those since, have connived with their repression under a veneer of respectability. Good mannered city queens in suits and pinstripes, so busy establishing themselves, were useless at changing anything.
Derek Jarman
#16. The Vision Festival was packed every night, always has been for the four years it's been happening.
Joseph Jarman
#17. Well, remember that we were all members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.
Joseph Jarman
#18. I've been informed by both sides, jazz, western music, Asian music, African music, all sides, because I've been interested in the sound of the universe, and that sound is without limit.
Joseph Jarman
#19. In fact, since no one's been interested in my work, I took the responsibility recently to invest in my own work, so I'm producing a concert that was done at the Vision Festival in May.
Joseph Jarman
#20. You know, Equal Interest played at the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival Awards and not one musician from that category was even thought of. Even thought of! The idea, that here's this vital energy, and that element doesn't even know it exists!
Joseph Jarman
#21. So all of the music had reference, or is inspired by something of the dharma that I've come in contact with.
Joseph Jarman
#22. People say to me, "You make fantastic films" and I say, "No, I make documentaries.
Derek Jarman
#23. No moment is ever isolated
With history elsewhere, drilling its stitches.
Mark Jarman
#24. No one wants to be some guy who puts records out about how good it is. That seems quite arrogant.
Gary Jarman
#25. I like sleeping at the minute, I don't really get the chance to do that.
Ryan Jarman
#27. When I was growing up in Wakefield in the 90s I would get in fights for carrying a guitar around.
Gary Jarman
#28. People call to keep me abreast of what's going on.
Joseph Jarman
#29. My gorgeous little rabbit," I say, in a voice that is low and husky with passion. "I may dominate you in the bedroom, Em, but you dominate my thoughts, my hopes and my dreams. I love you, Emily Jarman and I'm going to fall in love with you again and again, each and every day of our lives.
Nikki Sex
#30. Just getting out of your town seems to be a pervasive thing in England. But I don't want to keep grinding the axe forever, it's boring.
Gary Jarman
#31. I'm get really into jackets from movies, Keanu Reeves' jackets and that, I don't know why, I just have such a thing for them.
Ryan Jarman
#32. Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking.
Derek Jarman
#33. He had light blond hair and a demanding voice. Devin took him either as a total jerk or the guy in charge.
Jordan Jarman
#34. We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that.
Joseph Jarman
#35. So okay, I accepted, and I realized while working for that concert that I'd been missing something very important and vital to me, and that something was music.
Joseph Jarman
#36. Well, by the end of the millennium, five, six months from now, we hope to somehow manage to move into a new location where we have the whole building, so we can devote space to all our activities.
Joseph Jarman
#37. These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word 'queer' is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.
Derek Jarman
#39. until the moon had waxed fat and thinned, and again grown heavy with the child of night,
Rosemary Hawley Jarman
#40. Having solidarity is important and having conviction and sticking with it and also consistency. You can't just have one good record, or a couple of good singles, you have to continue making good music to be considered to be a great band. Having some degree of integrity, that's it in one word.
Ryan Jarman
#41. Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!
Derek Jarman
#42. You know, face painting in non-Western cultures is a sign of collectivism, is a sign of one representing the community, it's not unique at all.
Joseph Jarman
#43. I hadn't been practicing or playing or anything. But that had been a vital part of my life.
Joseph Jarman
#44. So, immediately after that, I got a commission to write a piece for chamber orchestra, and in working on the material I discovered it was possible to incorporate the Buddhist teachings into the music, so that's what I started to do.
Joseph Jarman
#45. Indian yellow, banned. Cows were poisoned with mango leaves and the colour was made from their urine. It is the bright yellow in Indian miniatures. Although yellow occupies one-twentieth of the spectrum, it is the brightest colour.
Derek Jarman
#46. a dream world, a world of magic and ritual, yet there are images there of the burning cars and radar systems, which remind you there is a price to be paid in order to gain this dream in the face of a world of violence.
Derek Jarman
#47. All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.
Derek Jarman
#48. Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression.
Joseph Jarman
#49. Well, dojo is a traditional Japanese word for training hall.
Joseph Jarman
#50. I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at the receiving end of this mayhem you could be unaware of it.
Derek Jarman
#51. The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.
Derek Jarman
#52. The Last Of England works with image and sound, a language which is nearer to poetry than prose. It tells its story quite happily in silent images, in contrast to a word-bound cinema ...
Derek Jarman
#53. I want the world to be filled with white fluffy duckies
Derek Jarman
#54. The Gautama Buddha instructs me to walk away from illness. But he wasn't attached to a drip.
Derek Jarman
#55. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.
Derek Jarman
#56. People doing the kind of sound research that I'm interested in still have a difficult time.
Joseph Jarman
#57. Paul Jarman, actually wants me.
Nikki Sex
#58. You're born thinking you're the centre of things, and they chip away at that until you expire muttering If I knew then, or some nonsense in an empty rooming house.
Mark Anthony Jarman
#59. Red protects itself. No colour is as territorial. It stakes a claim, is on the alert against the spectrum.
Derek Jarman
#60. I understand why there's a natural suspicion of the "Next Big British Band."
Gary Jarman
#61. But back to your question, it was a wonderful experience with the Art Ensemble, and I keep in contact and sort of follow what's going on, but it was also very important to make this step, you may say this leap of faith.
Joseph Jarman
#62. It's way too easy to get used to losing, it does something small to you.
Mark Anthony Jarman
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