Boyd Rice

Boyd Blake Rice is an American experimental sound artist, archivist, actor, photographer, prankster, and writer best known for his pioneering industrial noise music under the name NON.

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• I never understood alienation. Alienation from what? You have to want to be part of something in order to feel alienated from it.
  • quoted in an unidentified interview published in Industrial Cultural Handbook, RE/Search Books

• So-called intelligence and sophistication, which people attach so much importance to, and think give them clear perceptions, are the very barriers which keep them from ever having any clear perceptions.
  • quoted in an unidentified interview published in Industrial Cultural Handbook, RE/Search Books

• In a field of vision, your mind sees everything. Like whenever I'm with people, I'll always be the first one to see cats--I really like cats. And the other people'll go, 'I don't see any cats'--then they'll notice them.
  • quoted in an unidentified interview published in Industrial Cultural Handbook, RE/Search Books