“I know no misery in music.”
“I'm not sure why it makes me feel weird to know that people something I had a hand in creating, but it does. It feels too public somehow, like this thing that I do on my own to stay sane doesn't belong completely to me anymore, or something.”
Source: You Should See Me in a Crown
“I gravitated towards a patriarch so young predictably
I was resigned to spend my life within a maze of misery
A boy and a girl befriended me
We're bonded through despondency
I stayed so long but finally
I fled to save my sanity”
“Music [brings] a sense of wonder, connecting us with the next world, our future life, a ladder, a means of ascent and harmony between soul and its creator...[Causes] tears of longing that lift you out of this world of dust and daily cares.”
“Funny the way music finds you when you're a kid. It sneaks up on you. It's in the air, in the mood of the room, all around. And then, when it happens in just the right way, it can get under your skin and hang with you for just about forever.”
Source: Blue: The Color of Noise
“You still need to be able to write, and to have a habit of writing - and if you can do this creatively, so much the better.”
Source: Music Journalism 101: The definitive resource for new and established writers
“Ethnography is something you have actively be aware of doing; it's not passive work. It takes considerable conscious effort to do it well.”
Source: Music Journalism 101: The definitive resource for new and established writers
“You want to evaluate musical art on its own terms, first. It is only when you have a solid grasp of that, that you can start to speculate.”
Source: Music Journalism 101: The definitive resource for new and established writers
“The best advice I can give you at this point, though, is to trust your gut and be honest. Write your own opinion into the review, support every single statement with good reasoning, so your readers know exactly why you are making hat statement. And make sure that nothing you write is generic.”
Source: Music Journalism 101: The definitive resource for new and established writers
“Without focus, fame often becomes the corruption of the talent.”