Antonio Negri Quotes
The fact of being within capital and sustaining capital is what defines the proletariat as a class.
Quotes to Explore
-
I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.'
-
I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love.
-
The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.
-
I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's considered punk or considered rap. I don't mind being called a folk singer. But it seems a bit limiting. I want to be able to write whatever kind of song I want.
-
We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines which were the television news of the time. It's very disturbing to me that we've sort of been pushed to the corners.
-
The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.
-
Fair treatment of human beings and animals in many different realms strikes a chord with me.
-
You can not only do great things for an urban core by moving your employee base there, you're also going to be a better business.
-
The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
-
I've sat down and written with a more or less supportable or insupportable idea or thing to say, and it ends. When it's not 200 pages, people want to call it a story. I guess they're entitled to do that. In my view, if it were a supportable idea, it would have gone 200 pages, and it didn't.
-
I've been very, very careful to tell people what I am qualified to talk about and what I'm not qualified to talk about.
-
David Bowie worked with Brian Eno and dressed up in extraordinary clothes, but he was also a brilliant songwriter who captured the thoughts of a generation. He was hugely successful, without compromise.
-
It's not going to be easy to change things.
-
It was not a good time for Aerospace Engineers (Boeing was laying off thousands of them) and I found programming more fun anyways.
-
The strange thing is, we never owned our own publishing; it was always getting bought and sold.
-
Funk is the unending cycle of life.
-
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.
-
You know, when you're 23 and you get pissed, I mean drunk, you can just go crazy and it's all right. But if you're 43 and you do it, it's like your best friend's mother who used to come in pissed and everybody was really embarrassed. It just doesn't go down well, you know, after a certain age.
-
Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.
-
I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'
-
When people start yammering about artistic responsibility, artists become wary. The subtext of such talk is that the arts need to be regulated, which is to say censored.
-
The fact of being within capital and sustaining capital is what defines the proletariat as a class.
