19 quotes found
“You might say that the universe plays the blues.”
“The radio was shouting at you, pleading with you, and seducing you.”
“I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?”
“There's a good chance that you might be inspired by ideas that originate outside of yourself.”
“The online music magazine Pitchfork once wrote that I would collaborate with anyone for a bag of Doritos.”
“Complete freedom is as much curse as boon; freedom within strict and well-defined confines is, to me, ideal.”
“Presuming that there is such a thing as "progress" when it comes to music, and that music is "better" now than it used to be, is typical of the high self-regard of those who live in the present. It...”
“In the early days, I might have gotten on stage and begun to sing as a desperate attempt to communicate, but now I found that singing was both a physical and emotional joy. It was sensuous, a pure ...”
“Recordings aren't time sensitive. You can hear the music you want whether it's morning, noon, or the middle of the night. You can "get into" clubs virtually, "sit" in concert halls you can't afford...”
“The mixtapes we made for ourselves were musical mirrors. The sadness, anger, or frustration you might be feeling at a given time could be encapsulated in the song selection. You made mixtapes that ...”
“Music written by teams makes the authorship of a piece indistinct. Could it be that when hearing a song written by a team, a listener can sense that they aren't hearing an expression of a solitary ...”
“Any kid will tell you that, yes, their music is both an escape and a survival mechanism, and that sometimes the music givesbthem hope and inspiration. It doesn't just placate and pacify.”
“In musical performances one can sense that the person on stage is having a good time even if they're singing a song about breaking up or being in a bad way. For an actor this would be anathema, it ...”
“Everyone was doing that in their own way, rejecting things and moving on. It's just a part of discovering who you are; it's nothing special.”
“There are two conversations going on at the same time: the story and a conversation about how the story is being told.”
“One forgets that part of one's performance is one's historyor sometimes the lack of it. You're playing against what an audience knows, what they expect. This seems to be true of all performers; the...”
“But at times words can be a dangerous addition to music they can pin it down. Words imply that the music is about what the words say, literally, and nothing more. If done poorly, they can destroy ...”
“I also realized that there were lots of unacknowledged theater forms going on all around. Our lives are filled with performances that have been so woven into our daily routine that the artificial a...”
“Powerpoint presentations are a kind of theater, a kind of augmented stand-up. Too often it's a boring and tedious genre, and audiences are subjected to the bad as well as the good.”
