Joel Selvin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

In order to be truly free, you must desire to know the truth more than you want to feel good. Because, if feeling good is your goal, then as soon as you feel better you will lose interest in what is true. This does not mean that feeling good or experiencing love and bliss is a bad thing. Given the choice, anyone would choose to feel bliss rather than sorrow. It simply means that if this desire to feel good is stronger than the yearning to see, know, and experience Truth, then this desire will always be distorting the perception of what is Real, while corrupting one's deepest integrity.
No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance.
You are in integrity when the life you are living on the outside matches who you are on the inside.
Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.
Obviously music is my first job.
When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.
Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.
Music is another planet.
Music is there to enrich your life and make you aware of things in a slightly different way.
My sound is super hybrid; the acoustic sounds are there and the electronic sounds are there.

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