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Great music slumbered in him, but it never came to such an awakening as he himself dreamed of and heard in his soul.
Anton Prokesch, friend of Schubert. (via schubertiade)

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Bambaataa stood at the back of the crowd with a smile on his face. He whipped out his cellphone to snap a photo of the band during “Numbers,” just like all the fans standing next to him. During the opening strains of “The Man-Machine,” he began air-keyboarding along with the melody line and mouthing the lyrics (“Machine machine machine machine machine machine! Maaa-chine!”) and grinned ear to ear when the group kicked into “Computer World.

Geeta Dayal

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I’m going to be 100% honest with you.

I’m 13. I have a little band. We are so much better than you. Honestly. You are the worst band I have ever seen in your entire life. You are worse than Rebecca Black. The bass player just hacks the bass and plays one chord. The guitar players are playing out of tune guitars and… well not even playing actually chords. I couldn’t sound worse if I tried. It actually sounds like a joke to me. The drummer is okay. But honestly the vocalist is completely out of tune. Oh and The Black keys have two people and are better than you.

From: Me, and pretty much everyone else who has accidentally stumbled upon your terrible music.

Sonic Youth’s Facebook page

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Our lives are ruled by habitual behavior. Art can help break through that behavior to direct experience.
Meredith Monk (via futurevessel)

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From an extreme limitation comes a system where possibility expands exponentially.
Holly Murkerson (via futurevessel)

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We have also sound-houses, where we practise and demonstrate all sounds and their generation. We have harmonies which you have not, of quarter-sounds and lesser slides of sounds; diverse instruments of music likewise to you unknown, some sweeter than any you have, with bells and rings that are dainty and sweet. We represent small sounds as great and deep, likewise great sounds extenuate and sharp. We make diverse tremblings and warblings of sounds, which in their original are entire. We represent and imitate all articulate sounds and letters, and the voices and notes of beasts and birds. We have certain helps, which set to the ear, do further the hearing greatly. We have also diverse and strange artificial echoes reflecting the voice many times, and as it were tossing it, and some that give back the voice louder than it came, some shriller, and some deeper, yea, some rendering the voice differing in the letters or articulate sound from that they receive. We have all means to convey sounds in trunks and pipes in strange lines and distances.

Sir Francis Bacon, New Atlantis, 1624.

Quote pinned on the wall of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop by Daphne Oram, 1958.

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“I… set out… for a… noiseless… room. Then I remembered… The silence depressed me.”

“I… set out… for a… noiseless… room. Then I remembered… The silence depressed me.”