“What do we need music to do? How do we visit the land in our head and the place in our heart that music is so good at taking us to?”
― How Music Works
― How Music Works
“It was a uniform that signified that one was a kind of downtown aesthete; not necessarily nihilistic, but a monk in the bohemian order.”
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“I also realized that there were lots of unacknowledged theater forms going on all around. Our lives are filled with performances that have been so woven into our daily routine that the artificial and performative aspect has slipped into invisibility.”
― How Music Works
― How Music Works
“You might say that the universe plays the blues.”
― How Music Works
― How Music Works
“There ain't no clean way to make a hundred million bucks.... Somewhere along the line guys got pushed to the wall, nice little businesses got the ground cut out from under them... Decent people lost their jobs.... Big money is big power and big power gets used wrong. It's the system.”
― The Long Goodbye
― The Long Goodbye
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