Tag: music
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festival legacy: Newport Folk & Jazz
As explained on our “About” page, this blog was born out of the experience that is the Newport Folk Festival. That experience cannot be captured in words, but this outstanding long-form article from consequence.net makes an extremely impressive attempt:
quote from Jeff Tweedy
“It feels really good to stop hating something. And music is a good place to start. Because while records don’t change over time, we can and do. Better late than never.”
–Jeff Tweedy, New York Times, 11/2/23
quote from Cormac McCarthy
“Music is made out of nothing but some fairly simple rules . . . The notes themselves amount to almost nothing. But why some particular arrangement of these notes should have such a profound effect on our emotions is a mystery beyond even the hope of comprehension.”
— Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris
quote from Cormac McCarthy
“Music is made out of nothing but some fairly simple rules . . . The notes themselves amount to almost nothing. But why some particular arrangement of these notes should have such a profound effect on our emotions is a mystery beyond even the hope of comprehension.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris
quote from Willie Nelson
quote from Valerie June
“A whole lot of magic has to happen to make music. A whole lot of minds have to see something invisible. The act of making music — that could be spiritual. You’re taking something that’s not physically seen and you’re bringing it from nowhere, pulling it from thin air, so people can experience it.”–Valerie June, 2021
