I don’t like the word ironic. I like the word absurdity, and I don’t really understand the word ‘irony’ too much. The irony comes when you try to verbalize the absurd. When irony happens without words, it’s much more exalted.
DAVID LYNCHI look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it. That’s why I love coffee shops and public places – I mean, they’re all out there.
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We want to generate the electricity of peace through music, and it’s a thrill to know that the super-creative, enthusiastic musicians of our world are with us to achieve this goal.
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I don’t know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense.
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Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.
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New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.
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There is an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us.
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Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition.
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Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me!
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We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.
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I like darkness and confusion and absurdity, but I like to know that there could be a little door that you could go out into a safe life area of happiness.
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There’s always fear of the unknown where there’s mystery.
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The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.
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If you keep your eye on the doughnut and do your work, that’s all you can control. You can’t control any of what’s out there, outside yourself.
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The thing about meditation is: you become more and more you.
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Intuition is knowingness, and this field of unbounded knowing, of knowingness, is within every human being. You start tapping into that and it becomes an ocean of solutions.
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I think that ideas exist outside of ourselves. I think somewhere, we’re all connected off in some very abstract land. But somewhere between there and here ideas exist.
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