#music

Maybe we should stop asking how do we get people to pay for music, and start asking how do we let them pay for music? from Ted Talk ↗

— Amanda Palmer

#creative-thinking #music

Sandy: "Are you making fun of me, Riz? " Rizzo: "Some people are so touchy. ↗

— Ron De Christoforo

#music

O chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole? O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance? ↗

— W.B. Yeats

#wb-yeats #music

Won't you let me take you for a ride. You can stop the world, try to change my mind. Won't you let me show you how it feels. You can stop the world, but you won't change me. I need music." -"Bleed ↗

— Cold

#change

The festive music died down and the granite pillars were replaced with rotted wooden beams as he continued down the alleyways. The scent of fresh flowers turned to mold, and the colorful mosiacs of honor and nobility were nonexistent. Run-down tenements were shadowed by its surrounding buildings, as if the capital itself wanted to conceal its existence. ↗

— Evan Meekins

#fantasy-fiction #fiction #oppression #poverty #young-adult

I just acquired a choir. I bought it for a song.
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— Jarod Kintz

#buy #choir #consumption #deal #funny

Music is the language spoken by angels. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#music

When melodies and chord changes are masterfully combined, a grand movement takes over our entire body, awakening heart, nerves, and emotions with a primitive force. One can see it in the ancient dance of the enchantress: her hypnotic jingling of costume, her trance to appease the gods. ↗

— Joshua Emmet

#change

But I know just what it feels like to have a voice in the back of my head, like a face that I hold inside, face that awakes when I close my eyes, face that watches everytime I lie, face that laughs everytime I fall. (It watches EVERYTHING) ... But the face inside is hearing me, right beneath my skin. ↗

— Linkin Park

#lyrics #music #truth #music

Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#church #inspirational #music #singing #faith