Peter Coviello > Quotes

“If you tend in your relation to music even a little toward the obsessive, there is a moment I’m going to bet you know. It’s the moment when, after years of living with a song floating around the rafters of your consciousness, it snaps into a startled, intricate clarity—when the words you’ve spent years singing recombine somehow into new and cogent form, alive with density and irony and crosshatched meaning. Inside the normative frame of daily life, this is a happy enough microevent, one of those small-scale disturbances of the dulled surface of things that make the world seem to flash, for a bright instant, with unexpended possibility.”
― Peter Coviello, Long Players: A Love Story in Eighteen Songs

“What happened next took up about four minutes and thirty-four seconds. That, anyway, is how long “Dalliance” takes on the record. But somewhere inside the dilated time of that performance—and “Dalliance” is a slow-blossoming bruise of a song, one that broods over a woozy guitar riff and ascends finally toward a huge uncoiling blast of sound—somewhere along that way, aflail in a way only someone generous-hearted would call “dancing,” it came to me. I knew it, right there, without words and well beyond the possibility of contradiction: It is better to be doing this, exactly here, exactly now, than any other human thing.”
― Peter Coviello, Long Players: A Love Story in Eighteen Songs