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Goliath was the best thing that ever happened to David


Carla Lynne Hall


#musician #musicians #music

Do dead people like music? I hope they listen to mine if they do, in their coffins, in the cold underworld, between the mind and the body in an insomniac wall of sleep.


Marc Broude


#musician #sarcasm #weird #music

I guess in this culture of ever-shortening attention spans, it's good if a song can lift us out of the madness, even if only for a few minutes.


Peter Bradley Adams


#music #musician #song #music

I remember once I asked Wayne for the time," Miller told Mercer. "He started talking to me about the cosmos and how time is relative." Miller and [Wayne] Shorter were waiting somewhere -- an airport, a train station, a hotel. The band's keyboardist, Joe Zawinul, who took charge of such matters as what the road crew was supposed to do and when, set Miller straight. "You don't ask Wayne shit like that," he snapped. "It's 7:06 p.m." [p.1]


Ben Ratliff


#jazz-interviews #musicians-opinions #music

I like the smell of my Grandma's soap - I used to sit in the bath and eat it.


Carl Barât


#humor #music #musician #music

A politician is not allowed to get too emotional in public, so what he does is drop subtle hints that, over time, cause the public to get emotional. Once the same emotions are generated by enough people, the politician can use it to steer the public in his desired direction. Fear is an emotion that is often used this way. A smart politician knows that if he can create fear in enough people, those people will give up what they truly want in order to give the politician what he says they need.


Victor L. Wooten


#fear #politician #music

Everything is music for the born musician.


Romain Rolland


#identity #music #musicians #self-knowledge #music

There is still a future with music, because people still want music.


MaynardvJames Keenan


#maynard #musician #tool #music

Traditions that cease to evolve render themselves irrelevant or obsolete. And what's the problem with inventing new performance practices? Are customs being slandered? Do successful alternative diminish the value of traditional ones? *The argument that musicians must embrace conventional rituals is just as perilous as unilaterally rejecting them.*


David Cutler


#music #musicians #performance #performance-practice #traditions

But wouldn't [the Spice Girls] have shown a little bit more solidarity if they had at least called themselves feminists? The feminist activist Jennifer Pozner was more dismissive,writing that it was "probably a fair assumption to say that 'zigazig-ha' is not Spice shorthand for 'subvert the dominant paradigm.


Marisa Meltzer


#musicians #pop-culture #music