“If you love music hear it; go to operas, concerts, and pay fiddlers to play to you; but I insist upon your neither piping nor fiddling yourself. It puts a gentleman in a very frivolous, contemptible light; brings him into a great deal of bad company; and takes up a great deal of time, which might be much better employed.” IfsPlayLightMightDealsPayCompanyMusicGentlemanConcertsOperaEmployedMusic LoveFrivolousBad CompanyFiddlers Author:Lord Chesterfield
“I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out.” PeopleIfsThinkingPoliticalLanguageDealsMusicMediaAccessMainstreamSpitMainstream Media Author:Thom Yorke
“If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.” IfsWaySoundDealsMusicCuttingListeningEgoEarsMusicalRefuseDeveloping Author:John Cage
“Everybody has that point in their life where you hit a crossroads and you've had a bunch of bad days and there's different ways you can deal with it and the way I dealt with it was I just turned completely to music.” WayLoveLifeDifferentDealsMusicRelationshipBunchDifferent WaysRock N RollBad DayCrossroads Author:Taylor Swift
“I couldn't believe how good Jimi Hendrix was It was a really difficult thing for me to deal with, but I just had to surrender and say, 'This is fantastic.'” BelieveDifficultDealsMusicSurrenderFantasticDifficult ThingsHendrix Author:Eric Clapton
“Writing a song doesn't heal things. Even if the song comes up with a solution, it's still only a theory. Going out and living my lyrics is a whole other deal. That takes courage.” IfsWritingStillsWholeSongDealsMusicTheorySolutionsCome UpHealGoing Out Author:Alanis Morissette