Genesis P-Orridge

Musician

United Kingdom

1950 - 2020

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I'm not a man trapped in a woman's body. I'm a brain trapped in a human body.
Genesis P-Orridge
As a little boy, I never felt comfortable with being human.
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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.
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Once you're looking for wisdom, you have to look at why things happen and why people behave how they do: you cannot, in all conscience, accept any form of prejudice.
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Everyone knows that when things are out of balance, things go wrong.
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Everyone is telling the truth all of the time... well, it's just that times change.
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We've always said Psychic TV's music is the sum total of who's in it at the time.
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With Thobbing Gristle, that era from '75 to '81 was a period when the politics of the time demanded anger and rage.
Genesis P-Orridge
Me and Lady Jaye hung out with Anita Pallenberg a few times in the house she lived in with Brian Jones.
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I always felt that everything that happened was incredibly exhilarating and massively puzzling at the same time. I can even remember, when I was six or seven, digging a hole beneath a tree. And I would go into this tomb, this cave that I had made, and would lie there, meditating, for hours.
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