Moses Sumney
“Solange is very, very chill. She’s just so real, so human. Karen O, who I toured with last...
ISMS TO LIVE BY
Ezra Pound-isms to live by
“And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No...
Leonardo da Vinci-isms to live by
“Do you know that our soul is composed of harmony.” – Leonardo da Vinci...
Martin Luther King Jr-isms to live by
“God has wrought many things out of oppression. He has endowed his creatures with the capacity to create—and...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS-isms to live by
“Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.” – GWENDOLYN BROOKS...
Kathleen Hanna-isms to live by
“While everyone’s experience of oppression is different and complicated and often overlapping, I really believe that if you...
John Coltrane-isms to live by
“Over all, I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give a picture to...
Arundhati Roy-isms to live by
“And when we look in through the windows, all we see are shadows. And when we try and...
George Orwell-isms to live by
“The notion that you can somehow defeat violence by submitting to it is simply a flight from fact....
T Bone Burnett-isms to live by
“We live in an age of music for people who don’t like music. The record industry discovered some...
Matt Wallace-isms to live by
“All you’re doing is postponing decisions. Limitations are what make great music.” – Matt Wallace...
Numair Faraz-ims to live by
“Record companies like to make money, and that is their only goal. They do not care about the...
Rafa Sardina-isms to live by
“A naive aspect of recording often gets truly outrageously amazing results.” – Rafa Sardina...
Barbara Newhall Follett-isms to live by
“Not even a cat was out. The rain surged down with a steady drone. It meant to harm...
Arlo Guthrie-ism to live by
“With the advent of radio and recording, music became an industry rather than just a tradition.” – Arlo Guthrie...
Ziggy Marley-isms to live by
“I’m not a slave to the recording industry. I have the freedom to make an album that I...
David Byrne-isms to live by
“Before recording technology existed, you could not separate music from its social context.” – David Byrne...
Joanna Newsom-isms to live by
“The very first Walnut Whales recording was recorded just a few weeks after I had started singing, out...
Gary Wright-isms to live by
“No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist’s work and download it free is stealing....
Bat for Lashes-isms to live by
“An album is a whole universe, and the recording studio is a three-dimensional kind of art space that...
Susan Minot-isms to live by
“Recording a scene with paint rather than film sinks you more deeply into your surroundings. You have to...
Brian Eno-isms to live by
“In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids...
Conor Oberst-isms to live by
“Art is basically communication, and I think everyone who’s a music lover has had that experience where a...
James Baldwin-isms to live by
“Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem,...
Luc Sante-isms to live by
“The ghosts of Manhattan are not the spirits of the propertied classes; these are entombed in their names,...
Bell Hooks-isms to live by
“Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if...