Primitivist Quotes & Sayings

It is known (to some) that by dwelling in the present, conceding what is necessary to past and future, but no more than is necessary, it is quite possible to live happily ever after — Edgar Pangborn

The price for his intactness was incompleteness. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I'm not sure what kept me from the mainstream. I thought it was because I was too hard to pin down genre-wise. — Princess Superstar

I think of myself of a primitivist. I have never had any of these electronic instruments and I have never had the slightest interest in using them. I use the computer as a tool, simply because it makes composing a lot faster. But I don't go on stage with a computer and make a lot of goofy sounds. — Glenn Branca

Now I shall speak of evil as none has
Spoken before. I loathe such things as jazz;
The white-hosed moron torturing a black
Bull, rayed with red; abstractist bric-a-brac;
Primitivist folk-masks; progressive schools;
Music in supermarkets; swimming pools;
Brutes, bores, class-conscious Philistines, Freud, Marx, Fake thinkers, puffed-up poets, frauds, and sharks. — Vladimir Nabokov

I always loved performing and being on stage. — Tove Lo

Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own. — Alexei Sayle

A life which did not touch the life of others is a wasted life! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I remember that at the beginning of the month, the kind of menus my mom and father would prepare for us would have fish, chicken. But at the end of the month - because my father would be waiting for paycheck - the refrigerator would get empty. I remember that without a lot of food left, some of the best meals happened right there. — Jose Andres