(3089/898) Drama / music

1695) Audiences know what to expect, and that is all that they are prepared to believe in.

Tom Stoppard
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (play, 1967)
spoken by the character "The Player"

1696) We're tragedians, you see. We follow directions - there is no choice involved. The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

Tom Stoppard
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (play, 1967)
spoken by the character "The Player"

1697) The music of the future is not music.

liner notes
Environments compilation
posted by Robb Cunningham on alt.music.techno (2/24/1996)

1698) Noise is annoying when you try to ignore it; fascinating when you listen to it.

John Cage (attributed)
posted by Robb Cunningham on alt.music.techno (2/24/1996)

1699) It's not what you play, it's what you're plugged into.

Seefeel (attributed)
ambient-techno musical group
(Mark Clifford, Sarah Peacock,
Justin Fletcher, Daren Seymour)
posted by Robb Cunningham on alt.music.techno (2/24/1996)