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“because genre is a construct for the purpose of commerce, not pleasure, and ultimately for the purpose of listening to less”
― Ben Ratliff, Every Song Ever: Twenty Ways to Listen in an Age of Musical Plenty

“Music coheres and resolves according to lots of intrinsic rules—so many that we tend to call it a "language." But natural languages [...] typically have many specific words to point toward specific commonplace ideas. This language doesn't, or at least resists being used quite in that way.”
― Ben Ratliff, Every Song Ever: Twenty Ways to Listen in an Age of Musical Plenty

“Tone doesn't demonstrably exist in composed notes. It exists only in played ones. It's the most human part of music, the carrier of emotion.”
― Ben Ratliff, Every Song Ever: Twenty Ways to Listen in an Age of Musical Plenty

“Algorithms are listening to us. At the very least we should try to listen better than we are being listened to.”
― Ben Ratliff, Every Song Ever: Twenty Ways to Listen in an Age of Musical Plenty