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Jun 6 11 7:34 AM
Golden Age
"A good deal of such ecstasy -- reminiscent of a shamanic seance with its rhythmic kinesis, music, words, and audience participation -- carried over into jazz."
- - Neil Leonard
"Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact."
- - William S. Burroughs
"Bebop was about change, about evolution. It wasn't about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change."
- - Miles Davis
"For me, that's where the music always has to be: on the edge between the known and the unknown, and you have to keep pushing it towards the unknown, otherwise it and you die."
- - Steve Lacy
"I can write something so chaotic you would say you know it's not written. But the reason it's chaotic is because it's written to be. It's further out than anything they would be doing if they were just improvising." - - Sun Ra
"I say play your own way. Don't play what the public wants. You play what you want and let the public pick up on what you're doing even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years."
- - Thelonious Monk
"I want the sweetness and the brutality, and I want to go to the very end of each of those feelings. I've been trying to find a way for the terror and the beauty to live together in one song. I know it's possible."
- - Sonny Sharrock
"If you take the creation of music and the creation of your own life values as your overall goal, then living becomes a musical process."
- - Cecil Taylor
the mid-sixties, a synthesizer was considered an instrument on its own terms, not a means of duplicating the sound of something else. It expanded the palette and gave the music a dangerous edge." - - Dorothy Moskowitz
"It’s no longer about notes -- it’s about sound!"
- - Albert Ayler
"Music is the whole question of life itself."
- - John Coltrane
"Some of the songs I write are based on my poems; for this reason, I am including some of them with this album in order that those who are interested may understand that poems are music, and that music is only another form of poetry. I consider every creative musical composition as being a tone poem." - - Sun Ra
"The genius is the one who plays most like himself." - - Thelonious Monk
"The important thing about art is that it makes people aware of what they know but don't KNOW that they know. This breakthrough results in a permanent expansion of consciousness."
"The most important jazz musicians are the ones who are successful in creating their own original world of music with its own rules, logic, and surprises."
- - Scott Yanow
"The shaman transports listeners to upper and lower worlds where they visit gods or consort with the dead, and jazz musicians, like other performing artists, transport their audience to heights and depths inaccessible through ordinary experience."
"The total statement of rock music and its audience is revolutionary. Long hair, for example, is an upfront revolutionary statement."
- - Ray Manzarek
"We need more diabolic music everywhere." - - William S. Burroughs
"We were dead serious about music back then. I thought music could change the world. I still do." - - Kris Kristofferson
TODD TAMANEND CLARK Poet/Composer/Multi-Instrumentalist/Cultural Historian The Monongahela River, Turtle Island
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Jun 6 11 11:39 AM
richard63 wrote:One interesting aspect I find with music as opposed to other entertainment media is that the enjoyment level can actually increase each time you return to a given piece, and that you can return to them again and again and never get tired of them. I've probably listened to the Beatles' "White Album" several hundred times (I'd say once every few weeks over the course of over twenty years), and I keep on finding new things to enjoy in it. I doubt if I've watched my favorite movies more than about a dozen times each.________________________________________________________________+1!
My name is Oedi and I soar amidst the stars far from the planet of my birth. I guess this starship is the closest thing I've got to a home now, for I am a refugee and an outlaw. Vanth Dreadstar, Syzygy Darklock, Willow 327, Rainbow and Skeevo are my family. We are revolutionaries. Our goal? To bring an end to the 200 year old war between the Instrumentality and the Monarchy!
Jun 6 11 11:41 AM
carabimero wrote:Before my grandfather died, I had a series of startling conversations with him, one in which he explained how he came to know and accept that he was losing his hearing: he could no longer hear certain parts of a recording he'd been listening to for decades of Beethoven's Ninth symphony. He felt akin to Beethoven and said that music was helping him make the passage to the next life easier.____________________________________________________Your grandfather is in good company!
Jun 6 11 11:43 AM
TODD TAMANEND CLARK wrote: "I want the sweetness and the brutality, and I want to go to the very end of each of those feelings. I've been trying to find a way for the terror and the beauty to live together in one song. I know it's possible." - - Sonny Sharrock _____________________________________________Enjoyed the quotes, Todd, especially the one above. It reminds me of what Mike Portnoy (ex-drummer Dream Theater) said about Opeth's music. "It's brutiful"! (Brutal and Beautiful)
_____________________________________________Enjoyed the quotes, Todd, especially the one above. It reminds me of what Mike Portnoy (ex-drummer Dream Theater) said about Opeth's music. "It's brutiful"! (Brutal and Beautiful)
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