#music

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

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#music #music

I remember once I asked Wayne for the time," Miller told Mercer. "He started talking to me about the cosmos and how time is relative." Miller and [Wayne] Shorter were waiting somewhere -- an airport, a train station, a hotel. The band's keyboardist, Joe Zawinul, who took charge of such matters as what the road crew was supposed to do and when, set Miller straight. "You don't ask Wayne shit like that," he snapped. "It's 7:06 p.m." [p.1] ↗

— Ben Ratliff

#jazz-interviews #musicians-opinions #music

As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again. ↗

— David Byrne

#social-commentary #music

And by the way, if I always tell you the truth, you might start to believe me. ↗

— Victor L. Wooten

#truth #music

Gabe crouches over the radio, trying to get it to pick up one of the mainland music stations, which only works when the weather is just right and the appropriate slain sacrifices have been made. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

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The kid come in at a strange angle, made the notes glitter like crystal. ↗

— Esi Edugyan

#music #music

True perfection has to be imperfect. I know that sounds foolish, but it's true. ↗

— Noel Gallagher

#noel-gallagher #oasis #perfection #music

The boy Prewitt loved the songs because they gave him something, a first hint that pain might not be pointless if you could only turn it into something. ↗

— James Jones

#pain #songs #love

There are different ways people make this place. Sweat, exercise and pain is one way. You can see them in the gyms, in the well-ordered swimming pools. You can see them jogging in the small, worn parks. Another way to make your place is TV. A bright, brash place, always well lit, full of fun and jokes that tell you when to laugh so you never miss them. World news carefully edited so that it’s not too disturbing, but disturbing enough to make you glad that you weren’t born in a foreign country. News with music to tell you who to hate, who to feel sorry for, and who laugh at. ↗

— David Mitchell

#television #truth #world #music

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

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

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