Quotes by Jack Bowman - Page 1

Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting.
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Coffee
Performance Art
Setting
Performance
Produced
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It is better to go down in infamy than to never go down at all.
Jack Bowman /
Infamy
Down
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My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.
Jack Bowman /
Advise
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I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs.
Jack Bowman /
Gang
Although
Defensive
Sell
Purposes
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But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore.
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Patriotism
Anymore
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All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
Jack Bowman /
Mere
Performance Art
Philosophical
Pieces
Theater
Validity
Performance
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A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
Jack Bowman /
Being Done
Difficult
Performance Art
Possibility
Unprecedented
Since
Censor
Performance
Piece
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My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is America.
Jack Bowman /
Cost
Medicine
Social Security
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Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity.
Jack Bowman /
Essence
Performance Art
Ultimate
Performance
Possibilities
Tends
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I believe that I understand gangs better than others. Because they're formed out of necessity. They're formed by people to keep from being suppressed.
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Understand
Believe Better People
Believe I Believe Better
Necessity
Formed
Gangs
Suppressed
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I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion.
Jack Bowman /
Christmas
Belief
Conditioning
Christian Religion
Elementary
Schools
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My parents were laborers so we lived on South Park, which was a low-income region of Seattle. You had a choice - you either joined or formed a gang or you let others bully you.
Jack Bowman /
Bully
Gang
Laborers
Low Income
Seattle
South
Choice
Formed
Joined
Park
Region
South Park
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My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I know, there will be people who will listen.
Jack Bowman /
Express Yourself
Somewhere
Express
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I'm still very aware of the violence in our culture, more so than other people. I know where it comes from when someone is trying to suppress someone else, sometimes they fight back.
Jack Bowman /
Suppress
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Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with conventional theater. This is due to the usually small audience.
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Available
Conventional
Electronic Media
Performance Art
Smell
Taste
Theater
Due
Electronic
Involve
Performance
Practical
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Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting.
Jack Bowman /
Bad Guys
Boomers
Counting
Numbers
Real Life
Life Good Great
Baby Boomers
Finally
Good Guys
Great Thing
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I love old books. They tell you stories about their use. You can see where the fingerprints touched the pages as they held the book open. You can see how long they lingered on each page by the finger stains.
Jack Bowman /
Book
Long
Old Books
Pages
Stories
Touched
Use
Old
Each
Finger
Held
Page
Tell
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We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that.
Jack Bowman /
Artist
Bizarre
Break
Information
Performance Art
Purpose
Recycled
Performance
Shut
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This is why my art is about violence. Because I was subjected to so much of it as a kid. After that, and a lot of thinking, I became less violent. I realized that there must be other ways. So, I started to pursue them.
Jack Bowman /
Pursue
Violence
Realized
Subjected
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At one point, when I was 20 and living in Kentucky, I got shot - it was a land dispute over six inches of property that ran a hundred yards through my grandfather's land. It was really over the honor of my family and that of another family.
Jack Bowman /
Grandfather
Honor
Inches
Ran
Six
Yards
Shot
Dispute
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Basically the school system sets you up with what it wants to set you up with. They're really good at it. I think they're too good. Problem is, what they're doing is conditioning kids to merely accept the culture at hand. But the rebels won't accept it.
Jack Bowman /
Conditioning
School System
Merely
Rebels
Sets
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