Miles Davis
doesn’t care
what you think.
Category Archive: Quotes
Healing the soul of America is where we begin. Breathe, rest, and be kind to one another.
I think that it’s the job
of the artist to be in
transition and constantly
learn more.
The dramatic, distant work of Joy Division endures as one of rock and roll’s most challenging curiosities... Their beginnings aren’t particularly extraordinary, but the band’s furious evolution over the course of just three years is testament to a fearless imagination, purposeful single-mindedness and innovative spirit as potent as any in the history of popular music.
The Palace reaches out to Nick Rennis (The Business) for his thoughts on blaming musicians for not making enough money to live on in the age of pandemic and music-streaming services.
When I listen to the songs of Nick Drake — to Nick Drake singing his songs — something shifts. The world slips just a little bit sideways. An ancient, unfamiliar door opens and I can see something beyond everyday life. Beyond that door is a world that has more depth, more truth. It’s a feeling that only exists for the present moment... then it slips away again below the surface.
Jaremy Harmer
Nick Drake: Remembered For a While (Little, Brown, and Company, 2014)
I remember feeling as though I’d been sitting in a darkened room all of my life — comfortable and warm and safe and quiet — then all of a sudden someone had kicked the door in, and it had burst open to let in an intense bright light and this even more intense noise, showing me another world, another life, a way out.
Peter Hook
Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division (itbooks/Simon & Schuster UK, 2012)
The real history of music is not respectable. Far from it. Neither is it boring. Breakthroughs almost always come from provocateurs and insurgents, and they don’t just change the songs we sing, but often shake up the foundations of society.
I’ve been writing songs for thirty years. From the beginning, my songs have been stories. Every time I recorded an album, I was writing my memoirs... I wrote straight from the heart so the truth would ring like a bell, and resonate in the listener’s heart as well.
There are times when we need the rocket fuel of singing and dancing to power us through an act of blind faith.... We fall in love and we sing as we walk down the street; we turn up the music and dance.
Lavinia Greenlaw
The Importance of Music to Girls (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007)
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