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Category Archives: music
How to Handle Criticism Like Robert Mitchum
DIANE
What do you know about scenery, or beauty, or any of the things that make life worth living? You’re just an animal — coarse, muscled, and barbaric.
MAX
You keep right on talking, honey. I like the way you run me down like that.
—Barrie Chase and Robert Mitchum in Cape Fear (1962)
Ta-Ta for Money
“Assuming a man lives by himself and is willing to live as simply as Thoreau, he might write music that no one would play prettily, listen to, or buy. But if he has a nice wife, and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances? So he has to weaken (and if he is a man he should weaken for his children), but his music more than weakens – it goes ‘ta-ta’ for money! Bad for him, bad for music.”
—Charles Ives
Walk the Walk
“When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl. Then I say, ‘Bitch, you’re Lady Gaga, you get up and walk the walk today.’”
—Lady Gaga
(Via.)
Jamin’ on the One
Prince at the drums back in the day
On what was an otherwise quiet Sunday evening for me a couple of weeks ago, Questlove – of The Roots and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon fame – tweeted this:
can i get your opinion on something? can you follow me? do you ever sleep? awkward edition of: #QuestionsIDONTLike—
Questo of The Roots (@questlove) January 31, 2011
Will I Join Your Social Network?
Just in case anybody was confused, I made this handy-dandy flow chart:
Language Dorks
“One of the great paradoxes of rap: The toughest, coolest, most dangerous-seeming MCs are, at heart, basically just enormous language dorks. They love puns and rhymes and slang and extended metaphors; they accuse enemies of plagiarism and brag endlessly about their own hard-core habits of revision.”
Posted in music
Focus
“Once we hit the studio, it was just all focus on the music. All focus was one hundred percent on the music. There were rules: no Twittering, no e-mailing, no blog-watching – no stupid questions. All of this stuff is posted all over the walls. A wall of questions, for inspirations. ‘What would Mobb Deep do?’ All types of stuff.”
—Pusha T (née Terrence Thornton) on working with Kanye West on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
The Style of Music
“A series of posters featuring Iconic Outfits from 20 Male Musicians. Designed by Glenn Michael of Moxy Creative House, and illustrated by James Alexander the prints are available here.”
Posted in design, infographics, masculinity, music, posters, style
