Re: Music is not political (Was Re: music is political)

[Ariel Rzezak <arzezak@yahoo.com>]

Nice bunch of lawyers you've chosen...

 

Great quotations..

3nki <3nki@modaldub.net> wrote:

> someone asked for a definition of politics so i provided several from 
> several different online sources. if you read the definitions you 
> will see that "everything" is not political.
>
> such denial of responsibility some people have!
>
>
> speaking of quotations i am reminded of a few relevant ones:
>
>
> "If voting could make a difference it would be illegal." - Theodore 
> Adorno
>
> "Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being 
> obedient is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way 
> reduces to a minimum one's own need to think." - Adolf Eichmann 
> (Memoirs, written after 1960 kidnapping by Israel for WWII atrocities)
>
> "The ideals which have always
>  shone before me and filled me with the 
> joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of 
> comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics 
> built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle." - 
> Albert Einstein
>
> "Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music." - 
> John Cage, Silence, p.128
>
> "Theatre takes place all the time wherever one is and art simply 
> facilitates persuading one this is the case." - John Cage, Silence, p. 
> 174
>
> "If you steal my horse I can't ride, but if you steal my song I can 
> still sing it." - Unknown
>
> "Anarchy doesnt mean no rules, it means no rulers." - Edward Abbey
>
> "The truth is there is an ideological struggle between those who 
> believe that the best way to grow the economy is to give more money 
> to the wealthy, and the Democrats who believe that the wealthy will 
> make more money if average people do better." -
>  President Bill Clinton
>
> "Talk of democracy has little content when big business rules the 
> life of the country through its control of the means of production, 
> exchange, the press and other means of publicity, propaganda and 
> communication." - John Dewey
>
> "Some people giving orders and others obeying them: this is the 
> essence of servitude. Of course, as Hospers smugly observes, "one can 
> at least change jobs," but you can't avoid having a job -- just as 
> under statism one can at least change nationalities but you can't 
> avoid subjection to one nation-state or another. But freedom means 
> more than the right to change masters." - Bob Black (Source: The 
> Libertarian As Conservative, 1984)
>
> "The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in times of 
> moral crisis preserve their neutrality." -- Dante



Ariel Rzezak
Buenos Aires, Argentina
http://www.soundclick.com/arielrzezak/

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