#music

The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. The commonplace person begins to play, and shoots into the empyrean without effort, whilst we look up, marvelling how he has escaped us, and thinking how we could worship him and love him, would he but translate his visions into human words, and his experiences into human actions. Perhaps he cannot; certainly he does not, or does so very seldom. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#piano #experience

It was like a dam of musical critique had broken. Imasu turned on him with eyes that flashed instead of shining. "It is worse than you can possibly imagine! When you play, all of my mother's flowers lose the will to live and expire on the instant. The quinoa has no flavour now. The llamas are migrating because of your music, and llamas are not a migratory animal. The children now believe there is a sickly monster, half horse and half large mournful chicken, that lives in tha lake and calls out to the world to grant it the sweet release of death. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#musicians #death

DEAFNESS DOESN'T PREVENT COMPOSERS HEARING THE MUSIC. IT PREVENTS THEM HEARING THE DISTRACTIONS. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#humor #music #death

When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that. ↗

— Edie Brickell

#had #i #i wish #kids #look

But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the best thing you can do for yourself. ↗

— Edie Brickell

#creative #creative outlet #having #i #love

I like Rufus Wainwright a whole lot. He makes me wanna be even more musical. ↗

— Edie Brickell

#i #like #lot #makes #me

And I like music, too, I like playing music. ↗

— Beau Bridges

#like #music #playing #too

Music looks very formidable to people outside of it and it looks like it's this realm of spooky genius. ↗

— Jon Brion

#genius #like #looks #music #outside

If you look at the market cap increase in Apple since it created the iPod versus what's happened to the music industry, you have to say Apple got the better part of that deal. ↗

— Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

#better #cap #created #deal #got

The iPod made music mobile, but today, how many devices do you need to walk around with? You want it on just one. And inevitably that's going to be the phone. ↗

— Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

#devices #going #how #inevitably #ipod