Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
Frank Zappa
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Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music. -
I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express it in my everyday life. So I've been trying to be more true to myself, and that helps me to chill out a little bit. But politically, uh-uh. No. -
My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics - they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled - even though it meant budgeting like crazy. -
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Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.
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- One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.
- No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.
- The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.
- If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.