Fairfax Music: "In The Tradition & Beyond"

07/01/2025

07/01/2025

“Power without love is reckless and abusive, and
love without power is sentimental and anemic.
Power at its best is love implementing the demands
of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting
everything that stands against love.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

06/30/2025

“All my ways of being are musical and mysterious.
Yet I embrace you openly.
Ripe with expectancy.”
- Maya Angelou, Now Sheba Sings The Song
“When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless s*x with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time. ”
- Lady Gaga

06/27/2025

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mighty_Fortress_Is_Our_God
“The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God....Music is a gift and grace of God, not an invention of men. Thus it drives out the devil and makes people cheerful. Then one forgets all wrath, impurity, and other devices.”
- Martin Luther

“A person who...does not regard music as a marvelous creation of God, must be a clodhopper indeed and does not deserve to be called a human being; he should be permitted to hear nothing but the braying of asses and the grunting of hogs."

[Foreward to Georg Rhau's (1488-1548) Collection Symphoniae iucundae, 1538]”
- Martin Luther

06/26/2025

“Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.”
- Franz Liszt

“I have said before
that the music is the words
and the words are the music
It is all there for you to understand if you can
and for you to feel, regardless.”
- Sun Ra, This Planet is Doomed: The Science Fiction Poetry

06/19/2025

“When children listen to music, they don't just listen. They melt into the melody and flow with the rhythm. Something inside starts to unfold its wings - soon the child and the music are one.”
- Michael Jackson
“We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself.”
- Hazrat Inayat Khan

06/18/2025

“No republic is safe that tolerates a privileged class, or denies to any of its citizens equal rights and equal means to maintain them.”
- Frederick Douglass https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1866/12/reconstruction/304561/

https://youtu.be/-eJaCMR2fzA?si=g-AC9QxxCkOR-xHr

06/18/2025

“The power of music, whether joyous or cathartic must steal on one unawares, come spontaneously as a blessing or a grace--”
- Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
“Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.”
- Kahlil Gibran

06/17/2025

“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.”
- Henry David Thoreau
“I just don't hear anyone else making the music I'm making in my head, so I'll have to do it myself.”
- Bob Dylan

06/12/2025

“I am part of a light, and it is the music. The Light fills my six senses: I see it, hear, feel, smell, touch and think. Thinking of it means my sixth sense. Particles of Light are written note. O bolt of lightning can be an entire sonata. A thousand balls of lightening is a concert.. For this concert I have created a Ball Lightning, which can be heard on the icy peaks of the Himalayas.”
- Nikola Tesla

06/11/2025

“They all trying to say something with music that you can't say with plain talk. There ain't really no words for love or pain. And the way I see it, only fools go around trying to talk their love or talk their pain. So the smart people make music and you can kinda hear about it without them saying anything.”
- Gloria Naylor, Linden Hills