Top 37 Quotes by David Antin

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

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.

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

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 reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out.

The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer.

I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty.

When I got to the reading all the work, I was reduced to being an actor in an experimental play that I'd already written. And I didn't want to be an actor.

While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.