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“Turn every page. Never assume anything. Turn every goddamned page.”
It all comes back to this, a seemingly superhuman patience and exactness that motivates every sentence and every story...and that the driving throughline is so clear is a testament the process he describes in the interview at the end of the book. It works.
“There are many levels at which music can call to people, enter them, alter them---and this is as true for demented patients as it is for the rest of us. We bond when we sing together, sharing the specific affects and connections of a song; but bonding is deeper, more primal, if we dance together, coordinating our bodies and not just our voices.”
― Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
― Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
“Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity.”
― Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
― Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
“In every generation, radicals nurture scorn for authority and the old. They tap into a desire to destroy convention and induce shock. They demand tribal commitment and discipline. They risk everything to bring the new into being.”
― Can't Stop Won't Stop: A Hip-Hop History
― Can't Stop Won't Stop: A Hip-Hop History
“The shared euphoria aroused by keeping together in time is intrinsically diffuse, without definite external object or significance. Ideas and words can therefore turn the warm sentiments of group solidarity it arouses in many different directions. Hitler's brutal, suicidal path is not the only way to go, nor does the enormous variety of existing religious groups exhaust possible meanings assignable to this human capability. Benign, humane, and secular ideals can also be nourished by muscular bonding within human groups, large and small.”
― Keeping Together in Time
― Keeping Together in Time
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