Darcy Dahl

“So I went to New York City to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewhere else and start anew. I wasn't like my parents. I didn't have any supposedly sacred piece of land or shoals of friends to leave behind. Nowhere has the number zero been of more philisophical value than in the United States.... and when the [train] plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with it's lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Bluebeard

“Ubiquitous listening makes music virtually imperceptible, and any music is welcome. For so long as the semblance of vital activity that a music expresses satisfies a mood, musical sounds escape the capture of genre – the habts of form – and become instead an affective residue that thurifies the affairs of the occasion.”
― Eldritch Priest, Boring Formless Nonsense: Experimental Music and the Aesthetics of Failure

“A 'mistake' is beside the point, for once anything happens it authentically is.”
― John Cage

“Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina