Quotes About Music

Some couples stop making each other tapes—I have no idea what happens to them.

When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.

The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with — nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It does a better job of storing up memories than actual brain tissue can do. Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they can add up to the story of a life.

There are all kinds of mix tapes. there is always a reason to make one.

I get sentimental over the music of the '90s. Deplorable, really. But I love it all. As far as I'm concerned the '90s was the best era for music ever, even the stuff that I loathed at the time, even the stuff that gave me stomach cramps.

But the answer is simple. Love is a mix tape.

Nothing connects to the moment like music. I count the music to bring me back, or more precisely, to bring her forward.

The dilemma of the eighth-grade dance is that boys and girls use music in different ways. Girls enjoy music they can dance to, music with strong vocals and catchy melodies. Boys, on the other hand, enjoy music they can improve by making up filthy new lyrics.

When you stick a song on a tape, you set it free.

One of Renee's friends asked her, "Does your boyfriend wear glasses?" She said, "No, he wears a Walkman.

Sometimes great tunes happen to bad times, and when the bad time is over, not all the tunes get to move on with you.

Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they add up to the story of life.

Van Morrison's Astral Weeks

For all that, we have to realize that many revived folk songs today, in their "second existence", are probably enjoying a more vigorous life than they did in their first, restricted time, even if they are bent to different purposes.'9 Folk music had been set free to soar like the kestrel. Two years after this was printed, Lloyd was playing 'Deep Throat' consultant to Fairport Convention's revamping of folk on Liege and Lief.

Anne Briggs, The Hazards of Love EP (1964); John Renbourn, John Renbourn (1965); Mick Softley, Songs for Swingin' Survivors (1965).

well formed. 'Angi', Graham's most famous composition, first appeared on 3/4 AD, a 1961 Topic EP split with blues guitarist Alexis Korner. Based around a deceptively easy four-chord sequence, the plucking right hand appears to do the work of a jazz trio, the thumb maintaining a steady bass pulse while the rest of the fingers tweak out the tune's ruminative syncopations. Combined

The Watersons' polyphonic austerity refreshed the sound of modern folk in Britain to the extent that publications as diverse as Sing, Melody Maker and Gramophone all praised Frost and Fire to the stars, while BBC Two commissioned a documentary on the group, Travelling for a Living, aired in 1966.

Ashley Hutchings has been beating the bounds of English traditional music ever since. When he first heard Shirley and Dolly Collins's Anthems in Eden, just after quitting Fairport back in 1969, he broke down in body-shaking sobs; the suite finally unlocked and articulated all that he loved about English music. 'It evokes the countryside and it evokes the healing … I imagine it defined the whole of the rest of my career.

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The magical switch between the hawk and the hurricane reflects the very British experience of living in the past simultaneously with the present. Pentangle's music, in its swirling vortex of referents, the galliard shading into the raga, the ballad transmuting into the acid jam, unwittingly reflects these contested territories.

Liege and Lief, the

Most remarkable of all, of the album's eight tracks 'Come All Ye' is the only song that has a chorus that can easily be joined by an audience. The rest wander deeper into their respective narratives; unlike a pop song with refrains, hooks and totemic, easily assimilable recapitulations, these songs hold the attention with the persistence of a tale-spinner.

But I think bands that rolled in with a big attitude, like they were some big deal, I just found that very strange.

Garth was a reservoir of brilliant music, and I wanted to dive in deeply to learn and understand enough of it to appreciate its rewards.