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“Our sense of a composition largely inheres in how we feel about the individual parts; narrative arcs are almost always essential in drama but (unless there are lyrics involved) often less essential...”
“Music is the sound of unspoken thoughts.”
“Connection, he explained, was the essence of pop music, according to his boss, Jimmy Iovine: Jimmy always says its all about the connection between the artist and the fans, he says. This whole busi...”
“But nobody is born being able to hear [intervals], and many people never master them. Some people never even notice that "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" and "The Alphabet Song" follow the same melo...”
“Even more than music, rock-and-roll is sex.”
“The sound circulated like an autonomous being whose tentacles needed to experience a sensitive awareness of the terrain.”
“He's rigged a tiny cassette player with a small set of foam earphones to listen to demo tapes and rough mixes. Occasionally he'll hand the device to Mindy, wanting her opinion, and each time, the e...”
“I've never listened to music lying down. Listening's reading if you close your eyes.Music's a wood you walk through.”
“Lundin says, Denniz was an arrangement genius. He adds, like Steve Jobs, he knew what to take out. You can get rid of that, that. Keep it simple. As Denniz put it, A great pop song should be inter...”
“You can get in a car in Maine and drive all the way to California and hear the same Top 40 songs on the same chain broadcasters, bemoaned the report.”
“A melody occurs to you; you sing it silently, inwardly ... ; you steep your being in it; it takes possession of all your strength and emotions, and during the time it lives in you, it effaces all t...”
“Well that's very kind of you, but voices ought not be measured by how pretty they are. Instead they matter only if they convince you that they are telling the truth.”
“Theres still other songs that I think that would never be on the radio that get, its a different kind of response. Part II, theres just nothing like that. That song will never be on a radio station...”
“To hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony.”
“I was just going to stand here and watch it happen. I wasnt going to say a fucking thing. Why? Because what did it matter? What did any of it matter?”
“And then as the knives and forks began to clank softly above the white tablecloths, the violins would rise alone, now suddenly mature although tentative and unsure just a short while before; slim a...”
“MUSIC is, can, and will.”
“Music is essentially useless, as life is.”
“And then she'll know the things I learnedThat really have no value in the end she will surely knowI wasn't born to follow”
“As I fingered my way through the songs, I felt my worries slough away. My music has always been the best remedy for my dark moods. As I sang, even my bruises seemed to pain me less.”
