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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

...I don't ever want to feel that way. Feel as if there are no surprises left. The surprises make life worth living. Expecting nothing, accepting it all. Accepting isn't the right word. ACKNOWLEDGING it all. I suppose I'll just try to figure it out as I go or at least try to understand it. Or f***, just think about it. I'll face whatever comes my way... ↗

— John O'Callaghan

#keep-going #life #live #living #love

We're all weird. ↗

— John O'Callaghan

#music #musician #the-maine #unique #weird

Last night I did things my mother told me not to with the people I shouldn't see in the places that I should not go.. ↗

— Nick Santino

#adventure #crazy #danger #free #music

I am more than what they say I am. ↗

— John O'Callaghan

#free #music #musician #the-maine #wild

If the music is amazing, you can get away with anything. ↗

— Brian Logan Dales

#advice #lyrics #music #musician #the-summer-set

Playing an instrument is its own reward. Cleaning out a spit valve is its own punishment. ↗

— Peter James West

#humour #music #musician #music

Time and time again, throughout the history of medical practice, what was once considered as "scientific" eventually becomes regarded as "bad practice". ↗

— David Stewart

#health #medicine #physician #science #nature

...God was like the best musician in the world, because he put together all the sounds of nature and gave people like Jimi Hendrix his fingers and John Lennon his brain. ↗

— John Corey Whaley

#music #musicians #music