Reads tagged with “music”
Great Writers on the Power of Music
Kurt Vonnegut, Susan Sontag, Aldous Huxley, Oliver Sacks, Walt Whitman, Virginia Woolf, Friedrich Nietzsche, and more.
Anthony Burgess on the Magical Moment He Fell in Love with Music as a Little Boy
“There is, for everybody, a first time. A psychedelic moment … an instant of recognition of verbally inexpressible spiritual realities, a meaning for the term beauty.”
Strung Out In Heaven: Amanda Palmer on Patronage vs. Commerce, Art as Non-Ownable Nourishment, and the Story Behind Her Bowie String Quartet Tribute
“People don’t trust you without getting to know you and watching you work and seeing you make good on your word.”
Mozart’s Daily Routine
How a day is composed in the hours between sleep o’clock and symphony o’clock.
A Different Kind of Progress: The Poetry and Philosophy of Rilke, Rumi, Mary Oliver, and Tagore, Set to Song
A beautiful musical homage to the eternal dance of life and death.
Make This World Worthy of Its Children: Legendary Cellist Pau Casals on JFK, Violence, the Proper Aim of Education, and the Measure of Our Humanity
“Each second we live in a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that never was before and will never be again.”
The Story of How Alice in Wonderland Was Born and Amanda Palmer’s Magnificent Brass Band Cover of “White Rabbit”
“One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small…”
Mendelssohn on Creative Integrity and the Highest Satisfaction for the Artist
“When I have composed a piece just as it sprang from my heart, then I have done my duty towards it; and whether it brings hereafter fame, honor, decorations, or snuff-boxes, etc., is a matter of indifference to me.”
The Swan and the Blue Sail: Patti Smith on Creativity
“I felt a twinge, a curious yearning, imperceptible to passersby, my mother, the trees, or the clouds.”
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