Boyd Rice Quotes

• Well, I use the word Satanist, but I don’t know if I ever really considered myself as somebody who’s into Satan.

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• Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power.

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• To be beyond any existing classification has always pleased me.

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• There are a lot of people out there who think that I am their worst enemy, and I don’t even care if these people exist.

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• The will to label will always prevail over what’s being labeled, usually at the expense of either truth or understanding.

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• Similarly, only people as misanthropic as myself can be counted on not to have to lie to others, since we have the unique luxury of not caring what sort of opinions others formulate about us.

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• No, seriously, I really don’t have much ill-will toward anyone these days; I just ignore the people that I dislike.

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• My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it’s harnessing the powers of your mind.

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• I’ve been giving interviews for the last 25 or 30 years, more often than not answering the same questions over and over again, ad nauseum.

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• I’ve always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself.

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• I think when I was two years old in the sandbox. I think I formulated my basic philosophy there, and I haven’t really had to alter it very much ever since.

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• I think I feel automatically at home in Italy.

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• I have never made any secret of any of my thoughts or areas of interest. I’ve always been honest, open, and upfront.

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• I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.

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Boyd Rice (14)

Birth:	16th December, 1956
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Musician, Photographer, Writer

About

Boyd Rice is an American experimental sound/noise musician using the name of NON since the mid-1970s. He is a  photographer and writer. He is a writer for Modern Drunkard magazine. Some of these photos can be seen in his book Standing in Two Circles. His collected writings were published in 2008 by Creation Press. In 2009, his book No was published. In October 2011, Heartworm Press published Rice's Twilight Man, a noir memoir about his life in 1980's San Francisco.

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