“I might ask about the first time a person heard a song that they really responded to, like when I asked Mos Def when he first "got" hip-hop and he went into this memory about how hearing someone rap really affected him. He wasn't simply remembering the event. It was almost like he was occupying that space again. When you can really transport an interview subject like that, your readers can feel it and it helps them to connect with the artist.” HelpingRememberArtistSongMemoriesFirst TimeRapTransport Author:Anthony DeCurtis
“In Othello, Othello kills Desdemona, but no one reads that play as a model for their own behavior. In Lou Reed's case, you're listening to a song, and in my case you're reading about a life. Like Lou, I trust my audience to make their own moral determinations.” SongReadingMoralAudienceListeningBehaviorDetermination Author:Anthony DeCurtis
“People looked to Kurt Cobain because his songs captured what they felt before they knew they felt it.” PeopleSongFeltCapturedCobain Book:Rocking my life away: writing about music and other matters Source: Rocking my life away: writing about music and other matters
