April 13, 2013
discardingimages: ‘queck’ gloss Gorleston Psalter, England 14th century. British Library, Additional 49622, fol. 190v

discardingimages:

‘queck’ gloss

Gorleston Psalter, England 14th century.

British Library, Additional 49622, fol. 190v

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(Notes: 114)
  
February 19, 2013

The metronome has no real musical value. I repeat, the metronome has no value whatsoever as an aid to any action or performance that is musical in intention. […] refer by analogy to the sister art of drawing. Graphic artists understand well enough the essential and generic difference that exists between mechanically-aided drawing on the one hand and freehand on the other. Similarly, musicians ought to distinguish between (1) the sort of timing that results from dull, slavish obedience to the ticking of a soulless machine, and (2) that noble swing and perfectcontrol of pulsation which comes into our playing after years of practice in treating and training the sense of time as a free, creative human faculty.[36]
—The Amateur String Quartet by James Brown III

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January 5, 2013
“Shakespeare’s name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down” Lord Byron in 1814

“Shakespeare’s name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down”

Lord Byron in 1814

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Filed under: shakespeare 
January 5, 2013
“Too many notes, Mozart.” Emperor Joseph II about The Marriage of Figaro

“Too many notes, Mozart.”

Emperor Joseph II about The Marriage of Figaro

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January 4, 2013
“What’s this guy so angry about anyway? Guitar work and progression is like mine. Good backbeat. Can’t understand most of the vocals. If you’re going to be mad at least let the people know what you’re mad about.” —Chuck Berry on The Sex Pistols’ “God Save the Queen”

“What’s this guy so angry about anyway? Guitar work and progression is like mine. Good backbeat. Can’t understand most of the vocals. If you’re going to be mad at least let the people know what you’re mad about.”

—Chuck Berry on The Sex Pistols’ “God Save the Queen”

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December 20, 2012
“I am at a loss to understand why people hold [Jane] Austen’s novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. The one problem in the mind of the writer… is marriagableness… Suicide is more respectable.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journal, 1861

“I am at a loss to understand why people hold [Jane] Austen’s novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. The one problem in the mind of the writer… is marriagableness… Suicide is more respectable.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journal, 1861

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October 1, 2012
Lou Reed’s _Metal Machine Music_ will “be lauded as classical music alongside Beethoven and Stockhausen and …  not just sound like two angry space stations fucking, ” —NME

Lou Reed’s _Metal Machine Music_ will “be lauded as classical music alongside Beethoven and Stockhausen and …  not just sound like two angry space stations fucking, ” —NME

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Filed under: lou reed 
September 12, 2012

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Filed under: Nickleback 
August 26, 2012
“Conor Oberst has been straining to open an impossibly sealed mason jar for about 14 years now.”

“Conor Oberst has been straining to open an impossibly sealed mason jar for about 14 years now.”

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Filed under: brighteyes connor oberst 
August 15, 2012
“I was actually subjected to loads of drugs and had a very enjoyable time on them. I did a gig where the audience all turned into skeletons. You just think, My God, I’ll look the other way. And it goes away, and all the wires turn into snakes. And you just know that it’s a hallucination. So it’s not something you take seriously. You just carry on playing. And it all sort of works out in the end. You see people with vampire teeth and blood dripping down their face, turning green. But you know they are hallucinations, and you just ignore them, really.” —Nik Turner of Hawkwind

“I was actually subjected to loads of drugs and had a very enjoyable time on them. I did a gig where the audience all turned into skeletons. You just think, My God, I’ll look the other way. And it goes away, and all the wires turn into snakes. And you just know that it’s a hallucination. So it’s not something you take seriously. You just carry on playing. And it all sort of works out in the end. You see people with vampire teeth and blood dripping down their face, turning green. But you know they are hallucinations, and you just ignore them, really.” —Nik Turner of Hawkwind

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Filed under: hawkwind drugs 
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