Lael Johnson
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Retired cat lady and life coach. Also a Jesus believer,/follower, creative, loves Japanese culture, Celtic music, Pinterest person and clean humor, plus other stuff.
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Burl Ives: Riders In The Sky (A Cowboy Legend)
- “And the people bowed and prayed To the neon god they made” — The Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel
But for virtually all of us, music has great power, whether or not we seek it out or think of ourselves as particularly “musical.”
from Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
Listening to music is not just auditory and emotional, it is motoric as well: “We listen to music with our muscles,” as Nietzsche wrote. We keep time to music,
from Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
- I feel totally overwhelmed by the state of the world, but I think music and creativity, to me, is a way of exploring what's possible. There's always something when I'm making music that I didn't see that comes from nowhere and appears. When you go to create something, you're opening yourself up to possibility. It is a way that I continuously touch ... See more
from Maggie Rogers Thinks Joy Can Be a Form of Rebellion by Mélissa Godin
- I find it super interesting that music is formless. It can be with you at any time—and a song you hear can remind you of a specific memory from 20 years ago.
from On the Record with Apple Industrial Designer Eugene Whang by SSENSE
What do I mean by ‘betweenness'? Think about the nature of music. Music does not exist in one particular note – which is in itself meaningless; or in a lot of such single notes, each in itself meaningless. I am tempted to say it exists more in the spaces than in the notes: the spaces between successive notes in pitch that creates the melody, the sp
... See morefrom The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning by Iain McGilchrist
- Such patterns, formal and harmonic, relate their components to one another in time. The ear can sense the harmonies to come based on the relative intensities of those that came before, or when thematic material will return by the buildup of a cadence at the end of a development section or variation. It is through this higher sense of rhythm, then, ... See more
from We Are Made of Music, We Are Made of Time: Violinist Natalie Hodges on the Poetic Science of Sound and Feeling by Maria Popova