I don't believe in sampling some Tibetan... by Jessica Hagedorn | We Heart Quotes

Author Music poet playwright Sound

I don't believe in sampling some Tibetan music just to make it sound groovy, but you do your homework, you understand what you're doing with it.

- Jessica Hagedorn

Other quotes by Jessica Hagedorn

Drama Movies Years

We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child.

- Jessica Hagedorn

Sound Death

There were also horror shows on the radio. Very terrifying and thrilling to me as a kid. They had all these creepy sound effects. They would come on at ten o'clock at night, and I just would scare myself to death.

- Jessica Hagedorn

Writing Music Film

Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.

- Jessica Hagedorn

Being World Life

Hybridity keeps me from being rigid about most things. It has taught me to appreciate the contradictions in the world and in my life. I scavenge from the best.

- Jessica Hagedorn

Now Being

I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that the range of voices that are being heard and published is a lot more diverse than when I was coming up.

- Jessica Hagedorn

Writing Love

I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.

- Jessica Hagedorn

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