#tory

We were both young when I first saw you. I close my eyes and the flashback starts. I'm standin' there on a balcony in summer air. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#music #love

[on Purgatory] It is, of course, open to anyone to say that the whole idea is morbid and exaggerated--open even to those who think nothing of queuing for twenty-four hours in acute discomfort to see the first night of a musical comedy, which lasts three hours at most, which they are not sure of liking when they get there, and which they could see any other night with no trouble at all. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#purgatory #music

You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by hearing the master pieces which have been produced at different periods. ↗

— Robert Schumann

#history #music #vanity #music

Pike spawn in February, March, and April because they cannot wait until May. ↗

— Will Cuppy

#humor #natural-history #nature

Sound is the most absorbent medium of all, soaking up histories and philosophical systems and physical surroundings and encoding them in something so slight as a single vocal quaver or icy harpsichord interjection. ↗

— Geoffrey O'Brien

#sound #music

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is color that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. ↗

— Yann Martel

#story #music

History written in pencil is easily erased, but crayon is forever. ↗

— Emilie Autumn

#history #autumn

God made man because he loves to hear stories, Alessandro said. That's a good story, huh? ↗

— Tom Spanbauer

#storytellers #love

Promises from Lo are like bars at 2 a.m.--empty. ↗