- "Music is always a commentary on society. I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird. You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream."
Music is an activity enjoyed by 95% of humans. In fact, there are around 5% of humans who do not enjoy (or presumably understand) music.
Anything can be music, but it doesn’t become music until someone wills it to be music, and the audience listening to it decides to perceive it as music.
Music is the only religion that delivers the goods. Everything on this planet has something to do with music. Music functions in the realm of sculptured air. Polluted as our atmosphere might be, air is the thing that makes music work. Since all other things that occur in the sound domain are transmitted to the ear through that swirling mass, depending on how wide you want to make your definition, you could perceive quite a bit of human experience in terms of music. Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
CYMATICS Science Vs. Music - Nigel Stanford
Certain forms of music are deadly weapons, or even act as important military tools in the psionic cosmic wars.
MARS ATTACKS-Spontaneous Combustion scene
Classical Music[]
All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff. I'll tell you what classical music is, for those of you who don't know. Classical music is this music that was written by a bunch of dead people a long time ago. And it's formula music, the same as top forty music is formula music. In order to have a piece be classical, it has to conform to academic standards that were the current norms of that day and age … I think that people are entitled to be amused, and entertained. If they see deviations from this classical norm, it's probably good for their mental health. Classical musicians go to the conservatories, rock´n roll musicians go to the garages. The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse. A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.
Rock[]
Rock music was never written for or performed for conservative tastes.
Musical Taste[]
The Ultimate Rule ought to be: 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it's shitty. The more your musical experience, the easier it is to define for yourself what you like and what you don't like. American radio listeners, raised on a diet of _____ (fill in the blank), have experienced a musical universe so small they cannot begin to know what they like. Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.
Just because I don't like it doesn't mean anything – it's a matter of personal taste. One size does not fit all.
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