"

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

"

It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I pu...more

"

Music eats its young and gives birth to a new hybrid creature.

"

With pop music, the format dictates the form to a big degree. Just think of the pop single. It has endured as a form even in the download age because ...more

"

According to the science writer Philip Ball, when it was pointed out to musicologist Deryck Cookethat Slavic and much Spanish music use minor keys for...more

"

It was a uniform that signified that one was a kind of downtown aesthete; not necessarily nihilistic, but a monk in the bohemian order.

"

I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe--but just as irrational as sympathetic magic when looked...more

"

Presuming that there is such a thing as "progress" when it comes to music, and that music is "better" now than it used to be, is typical of the high s...more

"

In the early days, I might have gotten on stage and begun to sing as a desperate attempt to communicate, but now I found that singing was both a physi...more

"

In musical performances one can sense that the person on stage is having a good time even if they're singing a song about breaking up or being in a ba...more

"

The online music magazine Pitchfork once wrote that I would collaborate with anyone for a bag of Doritos.

"

The mixtapes we made for ourselves were musical mirrors. The sadness, anger, or frustration you might be feeling at a given time could be encapsulated...more

"

But at times words can be a dangerous addition to music — they can pin it down. Words imply that the music is about what the words say, literally, and...more

"

You might say that the universe plays the blues.

"

Recordings aren't time sensitive. You can hear the music you want whether it's morning, noon, or the middle of the night. You can "get into" clubs vir...more