Citas de David Antin

• From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.

  David Antin

  May, Entertainment, Language

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• The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

  David Antin

  Running, Past, Self

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• Todos los antiguos "poetas orales" griegos sentían esa ansiedad por las deficiencias de sus recuerdos y siempre empezaban los poemas rezando a la musa para que les ayudara a recordar.

  David Antin

  Memories, Anxiety, Greek

  "A Conversation with David Antin". Book by David Antin, Charles Bernstein, 2002.

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• No pensaba en si estaba escribiendo poemas. Pensaba. Y cuanto más pensaba, más cosas no entendía.

  David Antin

  Writing, Thinking, Writing Poems

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• Estaba muy comprometido con el proceso de composición, trabajando en poemas, montando y desmontando cosas como si fuera una especie de cineasta experimental.

  David Antin

  Together, Kind, Process

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• No estoy seguro de lo que es la teoría, a menos que sea la búsqueda de cuestiones fundamentales.

  David Antin

  Fundamentals, Pursuit, Theory

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• Tendía a destacar lo secular, lo informal, lo coloquial, lo vernáculo frente a lo sagrado.

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  Sacred, Casual, Secular

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• I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.

  David Antin

  Giving Up, Understanding, Trying

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• An art machine is a system
  whose parts when put in motion
  act upon each other in such a way
  as to cause you to see things differently

  David Antin

  Art, Machines, Way

  David Antin, John Cage (2005). “John Cage Uncaged Is Still Cagey”

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• My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.

  David Antin

  Ideas, Rejection, Entertainment

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• I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty.

  David Antin

  Strong, Feelings, Liberty

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• I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out.

  David Antin

  Dog, Giving, Stories

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• My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.

  David Antin

  Thinking, Way, Path

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• There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.

  David Antin

  Editing, Jazz Improvisation, Procedures

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• When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

  David Antin

  Growing Up, Fluency, Language

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• A veces he hablado ante un público experto, pero ningún público es experto en todas las cosas que quiero explorar.

  David Antin

  Experts, Want, Range

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• You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.

  David Antin

  Choices, Pay, Language

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• My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldnt understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.

  David Antin

  Mother, Widows, Chickens

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• When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.

  David Antin

  Mother, Husband, Appreciate

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• For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

  David Antin

  Song, Circles, Corny

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• I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.

  David Antin

  Hebrew, Remember, Enough

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• Aunque he sentido una gran aversión por lo que suele llamarse canción en la poesía moderna o por lo que suele llamarse música, en realidad no pienso que el habla esté tan lejos de la canción.

  David Antin

  Song, Thinking, Speech

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• Estoy de pie pensando. Quien quiera escuchar es bienvenido. Si no, me alegro de que se vayan.

  David Antin

  Thinking, Want, Welcome

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• I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.

  David Antin

  Distinction, Unsatisfied

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• While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan and George Brecht.

  David Antin

  Thinking, Giving, Use

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