Ken Burns-isms to live by Nadeem Salaam·December 17, 2015“Do something that will last and be beautiful. It doesn’t have to be a bridge-or a symphony or...ISM'S TO LIVE BY·0 Comments·
Hermann Hesse-isms to live by Nadeem Salaam·December 15, 2015“Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity...ISM'S TO LIVE BY·0 Comments·
Kathleen Hanna-isms to live by Nadeem Salaam·December 14, 2015“While everyone’s experience of oppression is different and complicated and often overlapping, I really believe that if you...ISM'S TO LIVE BY·0 Comments·
Albert Einstein-isms to live by Nadeem Salaam·December 13, 2015“Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty...ISM'S TO LIVE BY·0 Comments·
Grandmaster Flash-isms to live by Nadeem Salaam·December 12, 2015“For instance, if you’re playing a record with drums – horns would sound nice to enhance it so...ISM'S TO LIVE BY·0 Comments·
John Coltrane-isms to live by Nadeem Salaam·December 11, 2015“Over all, I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give a picture to...ISM'S TO LIVE BY·0 Comments·
Arundhati Roy-isms to live by Nadeem Salaam·December 10, 2015“And when we look in through the windows, all we see are shadows. And when we try and...ISM'S TO LIVE BY·0 Comments·
George Orwell-isms to live by Nadeem Salaam·December 6, 2015“The notion that you can somehow defeat violence by submitting to it is simply a flight from fact....ISM'S TO LIVE BY·0 Comments·
Anthony Burgess-isms to live by Nadeem Salaam·December 6, 2015“But the not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools...ISM'S TO LIVE BY·0 Comments·
T Bone Burnett-isms to live by Nadeem Salaam·December 4, 2015“We live in an age of music for people who don’t like music. The record industry discovered some...ISM'S TO LIVE BY·0 Comments·
Matt Wallace-isms to live by Nadeem Salaam·December 3, 2015“All you’re doing is postponing decisions. Limitations are what make great music.” – Matt Wallace...ISM'S TO LIVE BY·0 Comments·
Numair Faraz-ims to live by Nadeem Salaam·December 2, 2015“Record companies like to make money, and that is their only goal. They do not care about the...ISM'S TO LIVE BY·0 Comments·
Rafa Sardina-isms to live by Nadeem Salaam·December 1, 2015“A naive aspect of recording often gets truly outrageously amazing results.” – Rafa Sardina...ISM'S TO LIVE BY·0 Comments·
Sufjan Stevens-isms to live by Nadeem Salaam·November 30, 2015“Musicians are often asked to answer for an entire culture, or for an entire movement. It’s a process...ISM'S TO LIVE BY·0 Comments·
Barbara Newhall Follett-isms to live by Nadeem Salaam·November 29, 2015“Not even a cat was out. The rain surged down with a steady drone. It meant to harm...ISM'S TO LIVE BY·0 Comments·
M. Ward-isms to live by Nadeem Salaam·November 28, 2015“I don’t like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time, when I’m recording to two-inch...ISM'S TO LIVE BY·0 Comments·
Arlo Guthrie-ism to live by Nadeem Salaam·November 27, 2015“With the advent of radio and recording, music became an industry rather than just a tradition.” – Arlo Guthrie...ISM'S TO LIVE BY·0 Comments·
Ziggy Marley-isms to live by Nadeem Salaam·November 26, 2015“I’m not a slave to the recording industry. I have the freedom to make an album that I...ISM'S TO LIVE BY·0 Comments·
David Byrne-isms to live by Nadeem Salaam·November 25, 2015“Before recording technology existed, you could not separate music from its social context.” – David Byrne...ISM'S TO LIVE BY·0 Comments·
Joanna Newsom-isms to live by Nadeem Salaam·November 24, 2015“The very first Walnut Whales recording was recorded just a few weeks after I had started singing, out...ISM'S TO LIVE BY·0 Comments·
Ian MacKaye-isms to live by Nadeem Salaam·November 23, 2015“I’m really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don’t want endless tracks; I want...ISM'S TO LIVE BY·0 Comments·
Gary Wright-isms to live by Nadeem Salaam·November 22, 2015“No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist’s work and download it free is stealing....ISM'S TO LIVE BY·0 Comments·
Bat for Lashes-isms to live by Nadeem Salaam·November 21, 2015“An album is a whole universe, and the recording studio is a three-dimensional kind of art space that...ISM'S TO LIVE BY·0 Comments·
Susan Minot-isms to live by Nadeem Salaam·November 20, 2015“Recording a scene with paint rather than film sinks you more deeply into your surroundings. You have to...ISM'S TO LIVE BY·0 Comments·
Sufjan Stevens-isms to live by Nadeem Salaam·November 19, 2015“One of my strongest memories is my father playing bongos in the living room in Detroit listening to...ISM'S TO LIVE BY·0 Comments·
Brian Eno-isms to live by Nadeem Salaam·November 18, 2015“In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids...ISM'S TO LIVE BY·0 Comments·
Conor Oberst-isms to live by Nadeem Salaam·November 17, 2015“Art is basically communication, and I think everyone who’s a music lover has had that experience where a...ISM'S TO LIVE BY·0 Comments·
