#music

Every time we give a musician the advice to give away the music and sell the T-shirt, we're saying, 'Don't make your living in this more elevated way. Instead, reverse this social progress, and choose a more physical way to make a living.' We're sending them to peasanthood, very much like the Maoists have. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#away #choose #elevated #every #every time

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#earth #gift #given #god #heaven

Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math! ↗

— Nathan Lane

#look #math #musical #musical theater #single

Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#eventually #get #journalists #kill #middle-class

I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough. ↗

— Lucy Larcom

#defied #discords #drown #enough #fly

My future plans are hazy, and I've yet to experience how much cartooning is in my blood and therefore how much I'll miss it. But I have some other interests, especially in music, and I will probably take the opportunity to delve into those things more deeply. ↗

— Gary Larson

#cartooning #deeply #delve #especially #experience

The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and it's important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification. ↗

— Greg Ginn

#gratification #guns #important #instant #instant gratification

In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience. ↗

— Bill Laswell

#ambience #atmosphere #bass #been #deals

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#anything #architecture #else #every #himself

The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

#like #literature #more #music #narrative