in Quotes & Aphorisms (Music)
Do I want to change the world with music? Well heck yeah I want to change the world to a certain extent yeah. It needs to be changed... it needs a kick in the ass.
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Do I want to change the world with music? Well heck yeah I want to change the world to a certain extent yeah. It needs to be changed... it needs a kick in the ass.
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
A guy walks up to me and asks 'What's Punk? '. So I kick over a garbage can and say 'That's punk! '. So he kicks over a garbage can and says 'That's Punk? ', and I say 'No that's trendy!
I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.
Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live.
Punk Rock is dead and I fucking killed it.
I'll let somebody else sort that part of it, I guess. But a lot of 'em seem pretty applicable, you know Mrs. Mcgrath is basically an Irish anti-war song, but it's ripped right out of the headlines everyday today.
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.
She will never learn the most necessary, most difficult and principal thing in music, that is time, because from childhood she has designedly cultivated the habit of ignoring the beat.