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The 7-Word Autobiographies of Famous Writers, Artists, Musicians, and Philosophers

John Irving, Joan Didion, David Byrne, Rem Koolhaas, Madeleine Albright, Malcolm Gladwell, Daniel Dennett, Andrew Sullivan, Ed Ruscha, Brian Eno, and more.

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Edna St. Vincent Millay on the Power of Music

“Even poetry, Sweet Patron Muse forgive me the words, is not what music is.”

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Mathemusician Vi Hart Explains Space-Time with a Music Box and a Möbius Strip

The fabric of the universe via backwards Bach.

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Remembering the Godfather of World Music: Ravi Shankar + Philip Glass, 1990

East meets West in an exquisite meeting of the minds, hearts, and strings.

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Rework: Beck and Others Remix the Music of Philip Glass for the Iconic Composer’s 75th Birthday

Half a century of music innovation, reimagined.

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Vi Hart Explains Stravinsky’s Atonal Compositions and Why We Hear Music the Way We Do

What experimental composers have to do with copyright wrongs and the neuroscience of language.

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Legendary Composer Leonard Bernstein on the Future of Music, Harvard 1973

“A great new era of eclecticism is at hand.”

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The Best Music Books of 2012

From the neuroscience of talent to the illustrated Beatles, by way of Zen Buddhism and how creativity works.

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Song Reader: Beck Revives the Romance of Sheet Music with 26 Illustrated Songs

“Each era finds something new to return to; things that seemed out of date have a way of coming back in new forms, and revealing aspects of themselves we might not have noticed before.”

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David Byrne on How Music and Creativity Work

“Presuming that there is such a thing as ‘progress’ when it comes to music is typical of the high self-regard of those who live in the present. It is a myth. Creativity doesn’t ‘improve.'”

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Search results for “music”

John Irving, Joan Didion, David Byrne, Rem Koolhaas, Madeleine Albright, Malcolm Gladwell, Daniel Dennett, Andrew Sullivan, Ed Ruscha, Brian Eno, and more.

“Even poetry, Sweet Patron Muse forgive me the words, is not what music is.”

The fabric of the universe via backwards Bach.

East meets West in an exquisite meeting of the minds, hearts, and strings.

Half a century of music innovation, reimagined.

What experimental composers have to do with copyright wrongs and the neuroscience of language.

“A great new era of eclecticism is at hand.”

From the neuroscience of talent to the illustrated Beatles, by way of Zen Buddhism and how creativity works.

“Each era finds something new to return to; things that seemed out of date have a way of coming back in new forms, and revealing aspects of themselves we might not have noticed before.”

“Presuming that there is such a thing as ‘progress’ when it comes to music is typical of the high self-regard of those who live in the present. It is a myth. Creativity doesn’t ‘improve.'”

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