“In Africa, music is for everything, Music was originally used for community. That was what music was for.” UsedCommunityMusic Is Author:Emmanuel Jal
“Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something different, but all coming at it in a similar vein inasmuch as it's always community based and for the most part nonprofit. Most bands don't ever come within a mile of profit - clearly these people are not playing music to make money.” PeopleDifferentLanguageCommunityBandMusic IsProfitMilesMaking MoneyVeinsDifferent PeoplesPlaying MusicNonprofits Author:Ian MacKaye
“Music is the very cement that has not just held the black community together but holds black selves together in a fundamental sense.” SelfTogetherBlackCommunityMusic IsFundamentalsCementBlack Community Author:Cornel West
“Ideally the point of music is community, not the player. Musicians are simply channels to link the audience to the music and to each other.” CommunityAudiencePlayerMusicianMusic IsLinks Author:Trey Anastasio
“Of all the arts, music is the one communal art. It requires for its existence extensive cooperation and organization...Singing together the greatest choral music of all time is the surest way of developing in a community that sense of quality and reverence for beauty, which is the basis of a musical culture...Entertainment has its place in life just as candies and cocktails have, but health is not built on such a diet alone, nor culture exclusively on amusement.” WayArtTogetherCultureCommunityExistenceQualityMusic IsSingingBuiltOrganizationBasesMusicalEntertainmentAll TimeDevelopingDietsCooperationReverenceCandyAmusementCocktailsArt MusicPlace In LifeSinging TogetherChoral Music Author:Edgard Varese
“I love hip-hop music, ... It's rebel music is how I like to speak about it. Hip-hop and reggae come from the same community as far as class...they both come from the bottom of society.” SpeakCommunityClassMusic IsBottomHip HopHipsHopsRebelReggaeReggae MusicHip Hop Music Author:Damian Marley
“Music is a conversation between people and their community, you know, people and - and deejaying, it is a way of amplifying that conversation and kind of putting that conversation on blast in a way. But at a very basic level, it's records talking to records.” PeopleKnowsWayKindCommunityLevelsTalkingRecordsConversationMusic IsBlast Author:DJ /rupture
“Music is an extremely powerful art medium that can really affect people's emotions. It is amazing to realize how much communities can be born from different kinds of music and the people who appreciate them.” PeopleKindArtDifferentRealizingCommunityPowerfulEmotionMusic IsAppreciateDifferent Kinds Author:Kathleen Hanna
“I like a lot of hardcore, but it's just a genre about which I don't have much to say. It's kind of a thing where, unless you're active in the hardcore community, what could you have to say of value about it? It resists criticism because it's not just a style but an entrance into several different worlds of ideas- political, philosophical, societal. The music is really only part of the whole scene. In that sense, the music doesn't change much because it shouldn't: It needs to be there as a signal that you're entering into a certain discursive mode, maybe.” WorldKindDifferentPoliticalValuesCommunityStyleSceneMusic IsCriticismPhilosophicalHardcore Author:John Darnielle