Pauline Oliveros Quotes

#1. Working in theoretical systems can take away the juice. It can also be very beautiful, but when you're trying to satisfy a theoretical principle rather than a sonic reality, then it can become dry.

Pauline Oliveros

#2. Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears

Pauline Oliveros

#3. I was once walking in an airport and a woman came up to me and said, 'Be zany!'. That'd be like walking up to Baryshikov and going, 'Plie! Just do a plie! Do it! Do a releve right now! Lift my wife!'

Robin Williams

#4. My writing has always been a rather non-linear process. I've found if I get something down, I can listen to it and other things start to come.

Pauline Oliveros

#5. It never ceased to amaze him how quickly a small child's face could turn from peach to beetroot.

Iain Banks

#6. Listening is not the same as hearing and hearing is not the same as listening

Pauline Oliveros

#7. I am also interested in music expanding consciousness. By expanding consciousness, I mean that old patterns can be replaced with new ones.

Pauline Oliveros

#8. Listen to everything all the time and remind yourself when you are not listening.

Pauline Oliveros

#9. You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.

Abraham Lincoln

#10. My mother brought home the accordion in 1942. I was fascinated and wanted to learn to play it. Some of my music has a relationship to dance styles - The Well and the Gentle or The Wanderer for example.

Pauline Oliveros

#11. Oh, yes I am not ashamed of it. I would have everybody marry if they can do it properly; I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.

Jane Austen

#12. When I am composing, the sounds are leading me to the way I want them to organize.

Pauline Oliveros

#13. You have unlimited wealth and that is your love.

Debasish Mridha

#14. Listening is selecting and interpreting and acting and making decisions.

Pauline Oliveros

#15. Social progress takes effect through the replacement of all institutions by new ones; and since every institution involves the recognition of the duty of conforming to it, progress must involve the repudiation of an established duty at every step.

George Bernard Shaw

#16. I try to schedule the Intensives wherever I go.

Pauline Oliveros

#17. I feel that students always learn more from each other than they do from their professor. They learn by doing and not by trying to soak up information from one person.

Pauline Oliveros

#18. THE CORRECTION, when it finally came, was not an overnight bursting of a bubble but a much more gentle letdown, a year-long leakage of value from key financial markets, a contraction too gradual to generate headlines and too predictable to seriously hurt anybody but fools and the working poor.

Jonathan Franzen

#19. I, Patrick Lien, son of General Brendon Lien, do hereby swear my life to helping Princess Wilhelmina Korte reclaim her kingdom, no matter the cost.

Jodi Meadows

#20. I have nothing to do today but to smell the freshness of flowers and feel the joy of life.

Debasish Mridha