Top 10 Out Door quotes of 2011
10. Eyvind Kang: “When you’re listening to music, you listen to it with a friend one day and it sounds one way. You listen to it with another friend the next day, and it sounds a little different. Sometimes the greatest pleasure of listening is not the music that you’re listening to; it’s the person that you’re listening to it with.”
9. Alessandro Bosetti: “Music by itself is mute. That’s one of the beautiful things about it. It just talks about itself. That’s also one of the things that scared me about it originally.”
8. Mikey of Burmese: “Everything [in our music] is structured, but there is room for… not necessarily improvisation, but improvement. It’s like when you put two magnets of opposite polarity against each other. We are definitely going for precision, but we rely on chaos in order to achieve that precision.”
7. Cultus Sabbati: “People arguing about what constitutes “black metal” are missing the point. Black metal doesn’t need to be talked about; it needs to be listened to.”
6. Christina Carter of Charalambides: “The whole concept that we’re trying to recreate a 1960s sound is completely false. Or the whole idea that we’re positing ourselves as rural musicians— we’ve always been an urban band. We’ve lived in Houston, Austin, San Francisco, New York. I don’t even know how to plant a garden!”
5. Foot Village: “If there’s anyone watching this that’s in the army and can get us some sort of guest pass to come on base and shoot a bazooka, that is a goal of a band. We’ll need to fire four at the same time because there are four of us.”
4. Pauline Oliveros: “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…So I don’t say much in my classes. We just do things.”
3. Chris Watson: “I’d never lived inside [a train] or traveled with one in such a way. I was literally encapsulated by it. That process really hooked into me in the end, and I began to need to feel that source of power. Capturing it became a real objective for me because it’s really challenging— it’s just so fucking loud. You feel it as much as hear it.”
2. Chris Reifert of Autopsy: “If it entertains you, cool— read it, listen to it, watch it. But if it horrifies or disgusts you or scares you, then don’t listen to it. You can put the book down or turn the movie off or turn off the CD player. I think it’s funny when people get so freaked out, man. Well, who’s making you listen to this? Not me. I didn’t buy it for you.”
1. Eugene Chadbourne: “There’s something really great about completely clearing a room with music. Offending people just with sound. It’s easy to clear a room taking a shit on stage or doing something stupid like that. But to just get people out with music - that’s something that’s not to be sniffed at really.”
