Quote Of The Week

Quote of the Week 42 “ After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ” ―  Aldous Huxley , Music at Night and Other Essays         As cited in  Kierkegaard on the Spiritual and Sensual Power of Music, the Essence of Genius, and the Key to a Timeless Work of Art .     See  Great Writers on the Power of Music  for more quotes on music.    “ Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent. ” ― Victor Hugo     “Music is at once the most wonderful, the most alive of all the arts — it is the most abstract, the most perfect, the most pure — and the most sensual. I listen with my body and it is my body that aches in response to the passion and pathos embodied in this music.” ― Susan Sontag   “ Without music life would be a mistake. ” ―  Friedrich Nietzsche        

Quote of the Week 40 “ You got me wanting more when less is what I need. ” ―  Richard Macintyre, SIIGA , "The LCD" - Song Lyrics       Interpretation by ChatGPT:   SIIGA’s “The LCD,”  is  a song about   digital overstimulation and the strange emptiness it creates . At its core, it is about a person caught in a feedback loop: screen → stimulation → desire → more consumption → less satisfaction → more stimulation. The lyrics repeatedly juxtapose   wanting   and   needing . The speaker wants   more , but senses that what they actually need is   less . That makes the song less a straightforward anti-technology statement than a portrait of   addiction to excess —more content, more attention, more connection, more distraction. The   “LCD”   itself works nicely on two levels: LCD = Liquid Crystal Display   — the screen through which this world is experienced. LCD = Lowest Common Denominator   — potentiall...

Quote of the Week 37 “ There is nothing you keep, there is only your reflection. ” ―  John Andrew Hull , Manchester Orchestra , “ The Silence ” ( Song Lyrics )     Triggered by my switch back to Spotify from Apple Music — with all my old playlists intact. Related: Quote of the Week 3/2021 " You can go anywhere but you are where you came from. " ―  John Andrew Hull, Manchester Orchestra, “ The Silence ” ( Song Lyrics )

Quote of the Week 17 “ The future's uncertain, and the end is always near.” ―  The Doors , Roadhouse Blues (Lyrics) “Let it roll, baby, roll,  Let it roll, baby, roll,  Let it roll, baby, roll,  Let it roll, all night long.”

Quote of the Week 23 “ We've got to get in to get out.” ― Peter Gabriel , Carpet Crawlers (Lyrics) Triggered by the introductory tunes of Ordinary by Alex Warren.

Quote of the Week 19 “ Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.” ―  Robert Plant,  Stairway to Heaven lyrics Picture and explanation below created with X/Grok3: The phrase "Stairway to Heaven" carries a double meaning, rooted in both its literal imagery and its symbolic or metaphorical interpretations, particularly when viewed through the lens of the famous Led Zeppelin song released in 1971, as well as its broader cultural and spiritual connotations. Literal and Spiritual Meaning : On one level, "Stairway to Heaven" evokes a direct image of a celestial ascent, often tied to religious or spiritual ideas. It can be seen as a reference to Jacob’s Ladder from the Bible (Genesis 28:10-19), where Jacob dreams of a ladder reaching to heaven with angels ascending and descending, symbolizing a connection between Earth and the divine. In this sense, the "stairway" represents a pathway to enlightenment, salvation, or the afterlife—a journey toward a higher...

Quote of the Week 11 “ Thought is the enemy of flow.” ― Vinnie Colaiuta Triggered by  Rick Beato  mentioning Vinnie's mantra in another of his videos   (@ 7:24 mins) featuring Keith Jarrett : P.S. Check out Keith Jarrett playing The Blues . Related: Created with Flux.1 The phrase "Thought kills action"   is commonly attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche, though his original wording is  "Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion."  This idea appears in his work " The Birth of Tragedy ," where he suggests that deep knowledge or reflection can hinder decisive action, as action often relies on certain illusions or a lack of complete understanding.

Quote of the Week 50 "I’m actually a quite different person, I just never get around to being him." ―  Ödön von Horváth " Eigentlich bin ich ganz anders, nur komme ich so selten dazu . " ―  Ödön von Horváth " Eigentlich bin ich ganz anders. Ich komme nur viel zu selten dazu . " See also:   LOOSE LIPPS .

  Quote of the Week 19 "I f you want to reveal yourself, you also have to know where to stop. " ― Keith Jarrett (*May 8, 1945) Happy birthday to the master of perfect improvisation.* Triggered by unforeseen and hence unplanned circumstances during a recent vacation trip that reminded me of the story behind " The Köln Concert " bestselling solo-piano album ever  ―  in any genre  ―  covered here : "If I did The Köln Concert again, there'd be so much less ornamentation. It's all been transcribed and exists as sheet music now, but that just shows me all the sections I'd cut out. One thing you learn: if you want to reveal yourself, you also have to know where to stop." Source: " There is no plan " (The Guardian, October 2006) *See The Aesthetics of Imperfection in Music and the Arts for those that don't agree with the juxtapostion of "perfection" and "improvisation".

Quote of the Week 8 " Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time. " ― Jean-Michel Basquiat Triggered by a recent tweet similar to this one: “Art is how we decorate space; music is how we decorate time,” — Jean-Michel Basquiat pic.twitter.com/O5a91JJNLu — upfromsumdirt (@upfromsumdirt) February 5, 2023 [ LinkedIn ]  

Quote of the Week 6 " From the pain come the dream  From the dream come the vision  From the vision come the people  From the people come the power  From this power come the change " ― Peter Gabriel See also: LinkedIn post.