Top 110 Quotes & Sayings by Genesis P-Orridge
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English musician Genesis P-Orridge.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
I've had all my teeth replaced with solid gold replicas of the originals.
I think we can only ultimately change the world by example and by fearlessly embracing what could happen.
Everyone is telling the truth all of the time... well, it's just that times change.
Somebody once asked me, 'What do you do?' and I flippantly answered 'I'm a cultural engineer.' With hindsight, I kind of am - but if I got too self-conscious about it, it wouldn't work.
Things don't happen in a vacuum, and artists don't make work in a vacuum.
The human body is not the person. Identity is the way the brain operates; it's memories, it's sensory input and output. The mind is the person.
I refer to myself as 'we.'
The body is simply the suitcase that carries us around.
Lady Jaye dressed me in her clothes the first day we met. The love we had was so strong, we wished we could become one. Then we thought, 'Why shouldn't we?'
My father enlisted at the age of 17. He lied about his age because he wanted to ride the fastest motorbikes, which were with the British army.
Lady Jaye and I always thought black eyes were really sexy.
If we confound and break up the proposed unfolding the world impresses upon us, we can give ourselves the space to consider what we want to be as a species.
Once you have a hit, it just becomes another old song.
My artwork is in order to seduce people into thinking.
We don't agree with Caitlyn Jenner deciding she is the spokesperson for trans people.
I've always felt that all the music I've made is psychedelic, including Throbbing Gristle.
I think, with TG, in our own ways, we have been committed to the idea of evolution on some level and change on some level - that human behaviour may not be changeable, but one has to try and be optimistic and work towards content that might signify change.
The great irony was that the punks were more conservative and narrow-minded and musically bigoted that anyone else.
Human beings are not capable of creating a thought that truly conceives of this existence. Nobody knows if we are really here, alive, or anything. It's a mystery.
You have an absolute right to translate poetry in any form with any sound. It's all up for grabs.
The biggest way to say, philosophically, you'll never be part of a war is to look completely the opposite of anyone in a war.
To sell yourself is somewhat debasing, and everyone is selling something.
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!
What's incredible with Trent Reznor is how he took all the alienation and the rejection of traditional rock and found a way to encapsulate it in a form that made the public finally get industrial music.
The gender is irrelevant; the identity is the one you should try and create for yourself by yourself, and the narrative of your own life becomes your own book.
When in doubt, make no sense. No sense is good. And nonsense is good.
I guess I'm dedicated to breaking every inherited mould I can in my private life.
The status quo is presented as something to aspire to, whereas for us, the status quo was something we wanted to shatter in order to create the space for people to choose for themselves.
The punk rockers said, 'Learn three chords and form a band.' And we thought, 'Why learn any chords?' We wanted to make music like Ford made cars on the industrial belt. Industrial music for industrial people.
Everything in our world tends to be built on either/ors, and either/ors inevitably make enemies.
Everything we do is art, philosophy, mysticism, cultural commentary.
Ian Curtis was a young genius.
We were already, in 1981, bemoaning the fact that people were using certain accessorised ideas and images that they connected with us - sort of strange buildings and neo-fascist regimes and the 'dark side' of human culture.
We've always said Psychic TV's music is the sum total of who's in it at the time.
Girls together getting dressed up can be really good fun.
There's a moment for everybody when you look at that picture of Jesus in the church and think, 'This doesn't totally make sense.' If God made everything, then who made God? We have no idea.
Humanity is a virus.
All the people at university were very aristocratic - except me, because I was on scholarship. And everyone there voluntarily wore suits and ties every day. And this was in the '60s!
I have no idea what's going on in the fashion industry.
Any artist should stay challenged as long as possible.
Every few years, you have to change your strategy. You have to look at how the world is mutating, and mutate. Not in the same way but in parallel.
Writing is a recording that you can cut up and reassemble. Sound is something you can cut up and reassemble. Film, video - you know, the main tools of culture - can all be cut up and reassembled.
To be an 'artist' is as much a calling from and to a divine service as becoming a physician, nurse, priest, shaman, or healer.
We live in this miraculous technological environment, and yet our human behaviour is still governed by basic impulses from prehistoric times.
Once you believe things are permanent, you're trapped in a world without doors.
Pleasure is a cultural weapon. Use it wisely.
Change is not a linear process; it's an all-encompassing process, and it's alive in different ways.
I think one of the gorgeous things about TG is that we will go from something amazingly serious and important and significant in terms of the world and life, and then do something ludicrous and absurd.
All culture, all important culture, is always linked to how people express and experience being alive.
Mick Jagger is 70 and still singing 'Satisfaction' every concert. That would drive me insane.
The good thing about people who are corporate is that they're stupid. So they can be touching something that's precious or radical or special, and they miss the point completely.
Humans have to realise they're not individuals but individual parts of the same organism, with responsibility to each other.
It has always been my belief that creation, the making of 'art' in any medium or combination of mediums, is a holy act.
'Pagan Day' was Alex Fergusson's idea. It was him that encouraged me to start making music again and start Psychic TV.
When Lady Gaga wears a meat dress, it's meant to be controversial, but then it turns into money, and it's all fine.
Change comes from reflection.
I really feel that I've been unjustly exorcised from the story of psychedelic music.
We must embrace unity, not separation - sharing, go back to small, caring communities. Unity, not separation, is what has to happen.
I'm not a man trapped in a woman's body. I'm a brain trapped in a human body.
That's really the whole point of art - it's to take something commonplace and draw people on a path so that, all of a sudden, they have a new impression of everything around them.
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