"An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them."
"Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities."
There is all the time in the world for studying music, but for living there is scarcely any time at all. For living takes place each instant and that instant is always changing. The wisest thing to do is to open ones ears immediately and hear a sound suddenly before ones thinking has a chance to turn it into something logical, abstract, or symbolical. Sounds are sounds and men are men, but now our feet are a little off the ground.
[align=center]Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.
- Ludwig van Beethoven -
"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination,
and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."
- Plato (428 BC - 348 BC) -
Think of whales, men and birds. When you hear the songs of the whales, they are so spaced out that what sounds like a gigantic, drawn-out and endless moan is perhaps only one consonant to them. This means that it is impossible to perceive their speech with our constant of time. Similarly, when we hear a bird sing, our impression is that it sounds very high-pitched and agitated. for its constant of time is much shorter than ours. It is difficult for us to perceive its subtle variations of timbre, while it may perceive us, perhaps, as we perceive the whales.
„We are living in a period in which many people have changed their mind about what the use of music is or could be for them. Something that doesn't speak or talk like a human being, that doesn't know its definition in the dictionary or its theory in the schools, that expresses itself simply by the fact of its vibrations. People paying attention to vibratory activity, not in reaction to a fixed ideal performance, but each time attentively to how it happens to be this time, not necessarily two times the same. A music that transports the listener to the moment where he is.“ John Cage: „An Autobiographical Statement“ (1989)
"Play a tone for so long
until you hear its individual vibrations
hold the tone
and listen to the tones of the others
-to all of them together, not to individual ones-
and slowly move your tone
until you arrive at complete harmony
and the whole sound turns to gold
to pure, gently shimmering fire"
"All the people that were sitting in the front row tonight, like the guy that came from my record company, I wanted to pull him by his necktie and kick him in the nuts. He's made a billion dollars off my work over the last 50 years and the motherfucker just came over and introduced himself tonight. That cheery little thing. You know he won't do any contract work, he won't clean anything up, he won't get anything done. This whole industry fucking sucks and this little get-together you guys have here is like a private boys' club and it's a bunch of jackasses and jerks and fucking gangsters and crooks who've fucking stolen everything from a fucking artist. Telling the artist to come out here and tap dance."
- Steve Miller at his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction. Personally I'd have just stayed home if I felt that way, but wondering where are the parts of this that aren't truth.
“Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We
think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More
than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life
will be violent and all will be lost.”
Brighternow, love what you've posted! You've found some gems.
a quote by an anonymous Jewish poet to his wife when the Nazis came to get them:
"Till now we have lived with fear, now we can know hope."
Not sure if my son would like me texting him that. He needs to step up & face the music. He's trying to get a passport for a fabulous IT job in Europe, but needs to clean up a stupid college warrant to release that passport.
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Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.
- Ludwig van Beethoven -
"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination,
and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."
- Plato (428 BC - 348 BC) -
Ancient things,
Potential things..."
(Sun Ra)
John Cage: „An Autobiographical Statement“ (1989)
John Cage.
Yep.
Craig
until you hear its individual vibrations
hold the tone
and listen to the tones of the others
-to all of them together, not to individual ones-
and slowly move your tone
until you arrive at complete harmony
and the whole sound turns to gold
to pure, gently shimmering fire"
- Karlheinz Stockhausen
- Steve Miller at his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction. Personally I'd have just stayed home if I felt that way, but wondering where are the parts of this that aren't truth.
Sparkling Wide Pressure
- Walt Witman
may your whisky be with ice and may your darts be true."
Rolling with the punches.
James Leyland Kirby
“When I was maybe eight years old, the doctor said I was hyperactive. And they told my parents: ‘Oh, we have to put Dave on Ritalin therapy.’ Every night at dinner when I get the blood sugars up, I’d start ticky-tacking with the knives and forks on the table, and I’d start telling jokes and singing commercials from television and everything. And the folks would say to the company: ‘Now don’t worry about David, he’s just doing what we call Monkey Hour.’ I have successfully turned Monkey Hour into a career.” (Entertainment Tonight, 1981)
- A Tweet from Ubuweb
Brighternow, love what you've posted! You've found some gems.
a quote by an anonymous Jewish poet to his wife when the Nazis came to get them:
"Till now we have lived with fear, now we can know hope."
Not sure if my son would like me texting him that. He needs to step up & face the music.
He's trying to get a passport for a fabulous IT job in Europe, but needs to clean up a stupid college warrant to release that passport.