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The way I see it, everyone's a Geek of some sort. Football, films, music - it doesn't matter what the interest is; if you're fascinated by it, then you're a Geek. Simple as that. ↗

— Andy Robb

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Today you go into make a modern recording with all this technology. The bass plays first, then the drums come in later, then they track the trumpet and the singer comes in and they ship the tape somewhere. Well, none of the musicians have played together. You can’t play jazz music that way. In order for you to play jazz, you’ve got to listen to them. The music forces you at all times to address what other people are thinking and for you to interact with them with empathy and to deal with the process of working things out. And that’s how our music really could teach what the meaning of American democracy is. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#democracy #jazz #ken-burns #music

Of the myriad impressive notables related to Dio's passing, perhaps foremost is the fact the man was 67 years old and was still making quality hard rock records, still touring with a new (old) version of Black Sabbath, still singing his absolute heart out about dragons and rainbows, making the infamous devil horns hand gesture he swiped from his Italian grandmother and which has since became the universal, undeniable, completely badass symbol for true metal across all galaxies everywhere, and for which Dio deserves to be ensconced in the heavens forevermore. ↗

— Mark Morford

#ronnie-james-dio #music

Are people born wicked, or is wickedness trust upon them? ↗

— Stephen Schwartz

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He suddenly began to look wretched, much as I had seen him look as a schoolboy: lonely: awkward: unpopular: odd; no longer the self-confident businessman into which he had grown. His face now brought back the days when one used to watch him plodding off through the drizzle to undertake the long, solitary runs across the dismal fields beyond the sewage farms: runs which were to train him for teams in which he was never included. ↗

— Anthony Powell

#socially-inept #unpopularity #music

Maybe the reason why all the doors are closed so you could open one that leads you to the perfect road. ↗

— Katy Perry

#katy-perry #music #song #music

First he threw out all of his records, trashed his heart and then he went to sleep. ↗

— Pete Wentz

#music #records #music

I was no longer able to hear the music that issues from a decent piece of prose. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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That's the only way I could describe the music. It was the sonic equivalent of flight ↗

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

#tiffanie-debartolo #music

She's thinking that what she's been doing all these years isn't what she wants to do anymore. Sometimes music flows to her and from her, but sometimes it doesn't. Lately that happens more and more, and she can't seem to find what she had and what made her special. But she can't tell her father because he'd be so disappointed in her, so disappointed to find out she's not extraordinary after all. ↗

— Leila Cobo

#music #writer-s-block #music