#music quotes

[my-craft]

Hoizer makes good music

[thequotegarden]

[prendi-fiato-e-ricomincia]

I feel like I’m living inside of my head

[emerald22vulpecula]

"But music was not articulate. It was not a new world, but rather another chaos, that it created in us."

- The picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

[verpasstzuleben]

I'd rather be dead than alive and unhappy.. People think I'm joking, sorry I'm not laughing

— Mass of Man - Unhappy

[chicalepidoptera]

My submission for Jacob's fanbook by @nocontextlestat 🖤

[parlapina]

"Drink from the leche of sirens, summon the sailors in town, strangle the fear of deciding which one's deserving to drown"

Milk of the sirens - Melanie Martinez

[sunburnacoustic]

According to his new book, Serj Tankian from System of a Down almost signed Muse to his own record label back in 2003. He'd been a fan of theirs since the OOS days, having shared festival bills with Muse in Europe, and he really loved Absolution when it came out and noticed that Maverick hadn't even released it in the US, and wanted to try and buy Muse out from Maverick's control. Maverick asked for half a million dollars to transfer Muse (which is something I fucking HATE about labels and deals: they refuse to release your work and also won't let you leave, and this is still happening), which Serj couldn't cough up on his own, so he tried to convince Sony, who signed SOAD, to sign Muse instead. Sony hemmed and hawed and said they wanted to wait to hear Muse's next release before squaring up the money, but by the next year, all of Maverick's artist had been bought out by various record labels, including Warner Bros. proper, who picked up Muse and finally released Absolution, a year late in the US (2004, which I realised later is why you see some sources list its release date as 2004. The US release date). Interestingly enough to me, Maverick was a Warner subsidiary to begin with.

Serj regrets losing out on signing Muse, not so much from a financial standpoint, but because they were a cool band he liked, but I wonder how things may have panned out for Muse had they stayed indie for another few years? I imagine Warner worked out quite well for them: they sold out their first US tour in a long time in the autumn of 2004, headlined Glastonbury, were invited to play a Live 8 show, and of course, when Black Holes and Revelations came out in 2006 (Sony's loss), they exploded all over the alternative 'mainstream'. It doesn't seem like they've had much, if any, creative interference from Warner either, except maybe them suggesting the greatest hits thing that instigated Muse writing Will Of The People instead. Overall, fairly harmonious.

Things turned out alright for them!

[noname-404s-blog]

[tomorrow-wendy3]

“You’re so fucking annoying, you could poison poison”

- Poison Poison, Renee Rapp

[thoughtsofapessimistttt]

“It hurts to stay just as much as it hurts to walk away”

- kehlani

[mashkara45]

You don't know the things that he's done

He'll wring your neck and throw you in the water

You don't know, the plan's come undone

You'll find your last breath

Choking on the fire

[warpwoof]

Sun Ra

Many musicians think that most people are destined to be musically ignorant, but I know that there is a spark in every person which will respond and glow to the touch of beauty. Because I know this, I am going to continue presenting beauty to the world until I ignite that spark in people's hearts.

[maze-mind]

'𝘐 𝘭𝘦𝘧𝘵 𝘮𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘹𝘵𝘩 𝘥𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯. 𝘓𝘦𝘧𝘵 𝘮𝘺 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘭 𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯.'

...

'𝗗𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗺𝗲, 𝗯𝗮𝗯𝘆?'

But they're so special to me....

And how they hold eye contact......

[sweetmelancholy777]

And I try to be tough, but I wanna scream

[sunburnacoustic]

"Their music is this infectious blend of progressive rock and European pop with deep-seated classical influences, but I guess the label thought American audiences wouldn’t get it.

The guys in the band were genuinely good dudes. They came to my house, we jammed together in my studio, they even played with my dog."

More pull quotes from Serj Tankian's book, talking about Muse and Origin of Symmetry, and his brief experience meeting and working with Muse. Louder Sounds article.

Wonder if he knows that in return, Muse also admired SOAD a lot, and that the 'we're no droplets in the ocean' and riff to Unnatural Selection are very inspired by System of a Down?