Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul. . . when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued withthe same passion; and if over a long time he habitually listens to music that rouses ignoble passions, his whole character will be shaped to an ignoble form.
There is a fault common to all singers. When they're among friends and are asked to sing they don't want to, and when they're not asked to sing they never stop.
But know this: as far as a music culture goes, EDM is the one who will accept the kids on the outliers, the ones who get bullied, the ones who feel like they may not quite fit in. This community is exceptional in its ability to bond all types together, and I am not exaggerating when I say it saves lives. Our audience is intelligent and kind, discriminating only in regards to which sound they like best. Our audience is unprecedented in their drive to proactively support each other.
Once I discovered music, I knew what I wanted to do.
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
Sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moans of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees.
I started to write before I went to SUNY Purchase music conservatory. As an audition I submitted what I now think are really awful songs, but I guess they saw something in them.
Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.
In the phusical sense, 'playing a fret less instrument in tune' is an impossibility. Hence what we call 'playing in tune' is no more than an extremely rapid skilfully carried out improvement of the originally inexactly located pitch.
I've got a fierce passion for politics but I can't stand the smarmy, hypocritical upper-middle-class dictator nation that prevails and has always prevailed in this country. I'm up for petrol bombers, mate, and fighting in the streets.
The only thing I want to be defined by is my music and personality.
I really prefer electric music.
You know how some people seem to think that their love for classical music makes them spiritual or at least something quite special? And others who think you are a monster if you don't 'love children,' however obnoxious the children may be? Well, I found out that many people who love flowers look down on those who don't.
There are pop-culture things on television [that I like]. Not so much in music at all.
The music is a continuing thing.
Bebop is the music of the future (as soon as they learn how to play it).
Little Wing is like one of these beautiful girls that come around sometimes. . . you play your gig; it's the same thing as the olden days, and these beautiful girls come around. . you do actually fall in love with them because that's the only love you can have. It's not always the physical thing of "Oh, there's one over there. . . ", it's not one of those scenes. They actually tell you something. They release different things inside themselves. . . "Little Wing" was a very sweet girl that came around that gave me her whole life and more if I wanted it.
Any of the decisions that I made, if one could actually locate a shape or form, were all within a wall, the landscape of music.
As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
We need music to restore the human spirit
