What the music says may be serious, but as a medium it should not be questioned, analysed, or taken so seriously. I think it should be tarted up, made into a prostitute, a parody of itself.
David Bowie (1947–2016) in Rolling Stone, 1 April 1971 (via oupacademic)
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La gran familia de Woody Allen
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Not just the way we see red when we get angry—that too, moreover; it is only erroneously that one considers it something that is an occasional exception, without suspecting what deep and general law one has touched upon!—but rather like this: things swim in emotions the way water lilies consist not only of leaves and flowers and white and green but also of "gently lying there"
Robert Musil
From within love, we conceal the chance nature of our lives behind a purposive veil. We insist that the meeting with our redeemer, objectively haphazard and hence unlikely, has been prewritten in a scroll slowly unwinding in the sky. We invent a destiny to spare ourselves the anxiety that would arise from acknowledging that the little sense there is in our lives is merely created by ourselves, that there is no scroll (and hence no preordained fate awaiting) and that who we may or may not be meeting on airplanes has no sense beyond that we choose to attribute to it — in short, the anxiety that no one has written our story or assured our loves.
Alain de Botton Essays in Love
Banksy Fans Interact with His Clever NYC Street Art alice, mymodernmet.com
While the ever-elusive street artist Banksy continues to put up his clever works all over New York, his fans have been flocking to them, snapping pictures of the priceless pieces before they're gone (or defaced). Some have even put their own…
Banksy/NY
No. I'm not making a problem out of a personal question, I make of a personal question an abscence of a problem.
Foucault, in The Chomsky-Foucault debate on Human Nature
Las cinco emociones básicas a través de la música
Wendy MacNaughton charts the five basic human emotions in music. Couple with these essential reads on music, emotion, and the brain, then see the science of how music enchants the brain.
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