#music

The fact that people still know us is, in my opinion, a result of our music and of the big money that runs the music industry today. The people who control the industry are accountants who recycle everything in new, nostalgic packages, and everything else, to make more money. ↗

— Rick Wright

#big #control #else #everything #fact

So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America. ↗

— Ruben Blades

#cities #documenting #i #latin #latin america

Well, Smoke n' Mirrors has very much a world music flavor and it doesn't park itself in one country. It borrows heavily from the Brazilian angle, which is dear to my heart, and I recorded several albums with that flavor. ↗

— Lee Ritenour

#angle #borrows #brazilian #country #dear

Radio is not a partner in the industry. I think that the music industry has continued to depend upon radio, but has ended up pandering to a medium that doesn't care. ↗

— Don Rose

#continued #depend #ended #i #i think

Floating, falling, sweet intoxication. Touch me, trust me, savor each sensation. Let the dream begin, let your darker side give in to the power of the music of the night. ↗

— Charles Hart

#music #opera #phantom-of-the-opera #dreams

Lucivar winced. "She guzzled half the flask — and it wasn't one of his home brews, it was the concoction you created." Jaenelle’s eyes widened. “You let her drink a ‘gravedigger’?” “No no no,” Wilhelmina said, shaking her head. “You shouldn’t ever drink a gravedigger until he’s had a bath.” She smiled placidly when Jaenelle and Lucivar just stared at her. “Mother Night,” Lucivar muttered. “Do you know that song?” Wilhelmina asked Jaenelle. ↗

— Anne Bishop

#music #music

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#audience #deaf #music #nothing #requires

The "feminine" woman is forever static and childlike. She is like the ballerina in an old-fashioned music box, her unchanging features tiny and girlish, her voice tinkly, her body stuck on a pin, rotating in a spiral that will never grow. ↗

— Susan Faludi

#music

Society, you're a crazy breed. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#music #society #soundtrack #superapple #supertrump

My music and lyrics became an extension of this Indian philosophy. ↗

— Gary Wright

#extension #indian #lyrics #music #philosophy