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The man is his own instrument
The sounds themselves come from inside his mind. The man is his own instrument. The instrument is an orchestra. From the liner of Stevie Wonder’s album Music of My Mind.
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Steamrolling real music cultures
When [Spotify] removed real classical, jazz, and ambient artists from popular playlists and replaced them with low-budget stock muzak, it was steamrolling real music cultures, actual traditions within which artists were trying to make a living. From the Harper’s report Ghosts in the Machine, on how Spotify fills popular
I don’t think they are evil
I don’t think they are evil. I think they, like other tech companies, are just idealistic in a way that works best for them. Musician Zoë Keating about Google, asking What should I do about Youtube?
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A window in the 120 years of the record business
There was a window in the 120 years of the record business where performers made loads and loads of money out of records. But it was a very small window — say, 15 years between 1975 and 1990. Mick Jagger, on the rise of illegal file sharing, in an interview with
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Some folks really take a band and its music
Yet some folks really take a band and its music into the deepest part of themselves. The songs become their personal soundtrack. Vernon Reid, on the Living Colour Blog (Wayback Machine)
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There is something fundamentally unresolved about our music
There is something fundamentally unresolved about our music. And that’s a good thing. If our music was all resolved and sat neatly into a genre, ours wouldn’t be a multidimensional story. Vernon Reid on Living Colour, in a Boston Herald interview (Wayback Machine)