#si

Music has become more pervasive and portable than ever. But it feels less previous in the bargain. I don't want to confuse artistic and commercial value, but it's just a fact that some kid who rips an album for free isn't going to give it the same attention he would if it cost him ten bucks. At what point does convenience become spiritual indolence? I realize this makes me sound like an old fart, but sometimes I get nostalgic for the days when the universe of recorded sound wasn't at our fingertips, when we had to hunt and wait and - horror of horrors - do without, when our longing for a particular record or song made it feel sacred. ↗

— Steve Almond

#life

four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#music #song #love

I just want to hear something I haven't heard before ↗

— John Peel

#music

Music has charms to sooth the savage beast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. ↗

— William Congreve

#music

Hembry," he said, not lifting his gaze from Juliana's. "We will retire to the music room. Lady Juliana wishes to play with me." She laughed at his outrageous statement as the butler disappeared to light the lamps in the music room. "Play for you, you rouge. Music. Nothing else." "Hmmm...," he enigmatically replied. Sinclair allowed her to put her own interpretation on his intentions as they entered the house. ↗

— Alexandra Hawkins

#lords-of-vice #sinclair #music

My real friends never hearing from me fake friends write the wrong answers on the mirror for me, thats why I pick and choose I dont get stuff confused, I got a small circle Im not with different crews ↗

— Aubrey "Drake" Graham

#music

Kids: they dance before they learn “there is anything that isn’t music. ” —William Stafford ↗

— Steven Curtis Chapman

#music

There are these rare moments when musicians together touch something sweeter than they´ve ever found before in rehearsals or performance, beyond the merely collaborative or technically proficient, when their expression becomes as easy and graceful as friendship or love. This is when they give us a glimpse of what might be, of our best selves, and of an impossible world in which you give everything you have to others, but lose nothing of yourself. Out in the real world there exist detailed plans, visionary projects for peacable realms, all conflicts resolved, happiness for everyone, for ever - mirages for which people are prepared to die and kill. Christ´s kingdom on earth, the workers´paradise, the ideal Islamic state. But only in music, and only on rare occasions, does the curtain actually lift on this dream of community, and it´s tantalisingly conjured, before fading away with the last notes. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#dream #music #musicians #dreams

He was waiting for me at the best table in the room, toying with a glass of white wine and listening to the pianist who was playing a piece by Granados with velvet fingers. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#music

I've been working on my craft for a long time. People never want to let go of the whole 'Glitter,'... I'm like, 'It's eight years later, people. Let's move on. ↗

— Mariah Carey

#music #music