You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening.
Music is everything that one listens to with the intention of listening to music.
Opera once was an important social instrument - especially in Italy. With Rossini and Verdi, people were listening to opera together and having the same catharsis with the same story, the same moral dilemmas. They were holding hands in the darkness. That has gone. Now perhaps they are holding hands watching television.
In music, as I find myself forever saying, things don't get better or worse: they evolve and transform themselves.
The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.
The Democrats are coming along, and Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi have made it look like, "Hey, we're willing to work with Donald Trump. Hey, we'll help him get what he wants, but it's gotta be what we want. " They struck a deal. Chuck and Nancy go out there tell the media, "Hey, we got rid of the wall! Trump's joining us on the DACA kids and we got rid of the wall. " They report that; everybody believes it. Everybody believes the first thing that they hear.
I don't need to be famous. I'm not that ambitious. At this point, if I'm not sucked in, I'm never going to get sucked in. Being the so-called hot girl, I disconnect from that. It's not that deep.
I like to read either in motion or in water. . . I am happiest reading in the bathtub.
Each time I wake,I think, At last, this is over, but it isn't.