"Music isn't seeking to comment on the experience or transmit some finding about it - it is only seeking to express it. The vicarious experience is much more accessible. We all recognize the sound of that howling, because we all have a similar howling inside of us, however we heed it or hold it or muzzle it or repress it or live in bondage to it."

-- Melissa Febos

#Muzzle Quotes #Sound Quotes #Bondage Quotes

“I've always been making original music. I think that when I sat down with Losing Focus, I approached it different. I had a clearer understanding of who I was talking to, because I was able to go out and tour and see them right in front of me. I wanted to speak to them and speak about this lifestyle.”
“A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.”
“Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters.”
“With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.”
“Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion.”

Source : Elizabeth Janeway (1971). “Man's world, woman's place: a study in social mythology”
“What makes this danger so terrible is that humans tip the balance of your world. No other species can make such a difference, for good or ill. If humans can live in harmony with other forms of life, the world rejoices. If not, the world suffers--and may not survive.”

Source : T. A. Barron (2011). “The Eternal Flame”, p.223, Penguin
“You can't please everyone... If you make a good movie, that's all that matters.”
“I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.”

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