Top 37 Quotes by David Antin

My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.

I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.

I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.

A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.

I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.

There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be.

There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.