Genesis P-Orridge
Musician
1950-02-22
Books by Genesis P-Orridge
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Quotes by Genesis P-Orridge
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We don't agree with Caitlyn Jenner deciding she is the spokesperson for trans people.
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The body is simply the suitcase that carries us around.
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We've always said Psychic TV's music is the sum total of who's in it at the time.
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We live in this miraculous technological environment, and yet our human behaviour is still governed by basic impulses from prehistoric times.
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Everyone is telling the truth all of the time... well, it's just that times change.
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My father gave me a copy of 'Seven Years in Tibet,' and that's what turned me on to Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism.
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I always felt that everything that happened was incredibly exhilarating and massively puzzling at the same time. I can even remember, when I was six or seven, digging a hole beneath a tree. And I would go into this tomb, this cave that I had made, and would lie there, meditating, for hours.
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Why is there no cure for cancer? Because the medical industry doesn't want one! And the pharmaceutical industry doesn't want one! Because they would lose too much money!
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Once you believe things are permanent, you're trapped in a world without doors.
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Imagination should always be treasured, even when it's slightly off-key.
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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.
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Things don't happen in a vacuum, and artists don't make work in a vacuum.
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A real New Yorker is always someone who came here from somewhere else to avoid some kind of persecution, often sexual-preference based, or to be discovered in one of the infinite-though-no-longer-thriving alternative scenes, i.e. theater, music, dance, vaudeville, art, drag, or, in those of the greatest egos, to be 'the next Andy Warhol.'
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When in doubt, make no sense. No sense is good. And nonsense is good.
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