Music forecasts the past, recalls the future. Now and then the difference falls away, and in one simple gift of circling sound, the ear solves the scrambled cryptogram. One abiding rhythm, present and always, and you're free. But a few measures more, and the cloak of time closes back around you.
I like to travel and connect. - Richard Powers
I like to travel and connect.
- Richard Powers
Only keep still, wait, and hear, and the world will open. - Richard Powers
Only keep still, wait, and hear, and the world will open.
Reading is the last act of secular prayer. - Richard Powers
Reading is the last act of secular prayer.
When you're sure of what you're looking at, look harder. - Richard Powers
When you're sure of what you're looking at, look harder.
The web: yet another total disorientation that becomes status quo without anyone realizing it. - Richard Powers
The web: yet another total disorientation that becomes status quo without anyone realizing it.
We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is. - Richard Powers
We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is.
What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states. - Richard Powers
What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states.
I don't mind arguing with myself. It's when I lose that it bothers me. - Richard Powers
I don't mind arguing with myself. It's when I lose that it bothers me.
Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind. - Richard Powers
Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.
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