"Rock music is rhythmically some of the most impoverished music the world has ever heard, a fact that is hard to square with the sophisticated technologies that produced it."

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Source : Julian Johnson (2011). “Who Needs Classical Music?: Cultural Choice and Musical Value”, p.55, Oxford University Press

Julian Johnson

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“I feel like utopia is neither here nor there. It's in that sort of space where you feel the most present, and that can be on tour [or] at home. It's easier to get to that place on tour because your environment is constantly changing, and from a very primal, evolutionary perspective, you have heightened awareness when you're in an unfamiliar place, so it's easier to access that state.”
“What do they call it, Y.O.L.A., you only live once? I think people are sort of gravitating towards that.”
“To my father, who told me the stories that matter. To my mother, who taught me to remember them.”

Source : Marita Golden (2008). “Migrations of the Heart: An Autobiography”, p.5, Anchor
“I am not the first person to give birth naturally. Billions of other women have come before me and have done this - so why can't I do it?”
“Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus; that whoever makes ill-returns to his benefactor, must needs be a common enemy to the rest of the mankind, from where he has received no obligations and therefore such man is not fit to live.”
“As a freshman in college, I was having a lot of trouble adjusting. I took a meditation class to handle anxiety. It really helped. Then as a grad student at Harvard, I was awarded a pre-doctoral traveling fellowship to India, where my focus was on the ancient systems of psychology and meditation practices of Asia.”
“I'd pick a young white guy over an old white guy for president anytime because the younger guy is more likely to have been influenced by the great social changes of the '60s and '70s.”
“The biggest public fallacy is that the market is always right. The market is nearly always wrong. I can assure you of that.”

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