Felipe

“Uno es una trayectoria que erra tratando de recoger las migajas de lo que un día fueron nuestras fuerzas, dejadas por allí de la manera más vil, quién sabe en dónde, o recomendadas (y nunca volver por ellas) a quien no merecía tenerlas. La música es la labor de un espíritu generoso que (con esfuerzo o no) reúne nuestras fuerzas primitivas y nos las ofrece, no para que las recobremos: para dejarnos constancia de que allí todavía andan, las pobrecitas, y que yo les hago falta. Yo soy la fragmentación. La música es cada uno de esos pedacitos que antes tuve en mí y los fui desprendiendo al azar. Yo estoy ante una cosa y pienso en miles. La música es la solución a lo que yo no enfrento, mientras pierdo el tiempo mirando la cosa: un libro (en los que ya no puedo avanzar dos páginas), el sesgo de una falda, de una reja. La música es también, recobrado, el tiempo que yo pierdo.
Me lo señalan ellos, los músicos: cuánto tiempo y cómo y dónde. Yo, inocente y desnuda, soy simple y amable escucha. Ellos llevan las riendas del universo. A mí, con gentileza. Una canción que no envejece es la decisión universal de que mis errores han sido perdonados.”
― Andrés Caicedo, ¡Que viva la música!

“[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.”
― J.D. Salinger