“A musician must lift up the souls of the listeners, and take them towards space.” SoulSpaceMusicianLiftsListeners Author:Nikhil Banerjee
“Even as a fan, as someone who's into his performances, the Stooges and his own stuff, Iggy [Pop] is one of the people who kept underlining something that a lot of my older musician friends with punk roots say: you get into this space in your life where you feel like a weirdo, you're marginalised, you don't fit in... and then you can get up on stage in front of people who probably hate you.” PeopleFeelsHateStuffSpaceFansStageFrontsFitMusicianRootsPerformancesPopsGet UpPunkHate YouWeirdoStooges Author:Babatunde Adebimpe
“When you say what is the difference between me and my stage name the idea is that as a musician you always think of yourself as inhabiting a certain cultural space in the kind of a cultural landscape, so when I say cultural space what I mean to imply there is that you exist within certain parameters of how people think of culture.” PeopleThinkingKindMeanIdeasCertainCultureNamesDifferencesSpaceStageMusicianLandscapeThink Of YouParameters Author:DJ Spooky
“Nowadays, [young musicians] are so quick to be like, "OK, fine, I'll take the cheque, or I'll get the stamp from XYZ, and I'm expanding my brand," rather than thinking, "I'm part of this space over here, and in order for it to grow, you can't have it assimilated by this bigger bubble or corporate brand."” ThinkingYoungOrderGrowsSpaceFineMusicianBiggerBrandsCorporateBubblesStampsExpandingCheques Author:M.I.A.
“We think about sitting in a space and hearing some music by having our ears pointed forward towards the musicians sitting opposite us. I'm really not following that paradigm at all.” ThinkingSpaceMusicianSittingOppositesEarsFollowingHearingParadigm Author:Pauline Oliveros
“You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.” IfsThinkingWholeLanguageSpaceReadyMusicianNotesNotionMusicalScalesSequenceSyntax Author:Jerry Garcia