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Dog Poet Transmitting.......

Here are some of Robert Mapplethorpe's quotes;

“Beauty and the devil are the same thing.” (?)

“I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn’t. And that’s a tough place to be because you’re never satisfied.”

“When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.” (yikes)

“I don’t know why my pictures come out looking so good. I just don’t get it.” (neither do I.)

I remember the '60's very well. There's a joke that's been going round for decades; “If you can remember the 60's, you weren't there.” I remember them and I was there. I remember the 60's for the things I liked and the things I did not like. No one can accuse me of being opinion free. I have opinions and I am passionate about them. I recognize that the Rolling Stones were one of the best rock groups of all time but... I did not like them or Led Zeppelin, or a few others because they has that Satanic edge. During the 60's my life was about devotion. I rarely smoked, often did not take drugs (except for LSD), meditated often, lived in the awareness of God and every time I took LSD, I was going to visit with some permutation of Lady Nature, the ineffable ...and whatever elementals would appear and some of them always did. If you liked the Rolling Stones or Led Zeppelin then my take is not a knock on you. In no way would I argue that these bands did not have the maximum in skill and impact. They did but... I looked behind the door at Led Zeppelin and their private times. I was at Altamont. I KNOW what I saw. I did not like Ozzy Osborne. I did not like death and heavy metal. I felt that music was meant to inspire and that it provided a soundtrack for the sorts of environments, woven out of the minds of the actors (us) of the time. Simply look at what rap and insipid, saccharine bubble bath rock has given us.

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