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If you ask someone if they like music, they look at you strangely. It seems to be a universal given. Like asking someone if they like breathing. It is like breathing. Or air, rather. Flowing without and within. A matrix within which our lives are set. The setting for the tableware of our beings. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#ask #asking #beings #breathing #flowing

It's all about consistency, and what makes a child or a dog secure: order, clarity - all those things. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#child #clarity #consistency #dog #makes

Maybe a part of me recognized how right the improvising spirit of jazz is. Not the sounds, but the freedom to work with musicians who work that way. It felt very natural to me, but I think there's a way to do it without it being a jazz record. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#felt #freedom #how #i #i think

Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the natural laws of the universe. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#energy #greater #harmony #laws #music

Music is gathering. Taking our scattered thoughts and senses and coalescing us back into our core. Music is powerful. The first few chords can change us where no self-help books can. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#books #change #chords #core #few

Since the music industry cracked and fell apart, gasping for the cash flow it had come to expect, much re-thinking has been the order of the day. It is a fine time to be a musician. Like walking through Sodom and Gomorrah while it is still smoking, on your way to the next gig. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#been #cash #come #cracked #day

Interviewing politicians and movie stars, you know what you'll get. I like the people-stories better. ↗

— Shepard Smith

#get #i #interviewing #know #like

When I made my way across childhood to the tinny AM radio, it was dark. Lights out. I listened intently. More intently than I ever had before. Something was speaking to my unformed-ness like a long lost friend. Something that I had never met but forgotten nonetheless. I was 'realizing' that music was 'different' from other things in life. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#am #before #childhood #dark #different

Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

#best #divest #many #men #never

Maybe it's just my own chronic morbidity and melancholia, but I really do think about it a great deal and quite often in the small hours of the night when, it is said, the greatest numbers of people die. ↗

— Brian Sibley

#chronic #deal #die #great #great deal