Reads tagged with “music”
Leonard Bernstein on Cynicism, Instant Gratification, and Why Paying Attention Is a Countercultural Act of Courage and Resistance
“There is so much inherent goodness in people that if they aren’t inhibited by traumas and are given half a chance, it shines through.”
Rosanne Cash on Creative Heritage, the Bravery of Befriending Our Roots, and What Her Father, Johnny Cash, Taught Her About Artistic Integrity
“Like everything else, given enough time and the long perspective, the opposite of those things that we think define us slowly becomes equally valid and sometimes more potent.”
John Cage’s Symphonic Love Letters to the Love of His Life
“i would like to measure my breath in relation to the air between us.”
How Music Helps Us Grieve
“The springs of our reaction to music lie deeper than thought.”
Aldous Huxley on the Transcendent Power of Music and Why It Sings to Our Souls
“After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
A Cry of Gratitude: Baudelaire’s Magnificent Fan Mail to Wagner
“However used to fame a great artist may be, he cannot be insensible to a sincere compliment, especially when that compliment is like a cry of gratitude.”
You Got Me Singing: Jack and Amanda Palmer’s Elegy for Time and Ode to the Dignity of the Downtrodden and the Dispossessed
A record of searing tenderness and sorrowful optimism, harmonizing heartbreak and hope.
Schopenhauer on the Power of Music
“The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.”
Amanda Palmer on Art, Love, Loneliness, Motherhood, Vulnerability, Trust, and Our Lifelong Quest to Feel Real
“Maybe we’ve constructed culture in a way that people are not feeling recognized, loved, accepted, happy with their place in society.”
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