You rice-field maidens!
The only things not muddy
Are the songs you sing.
— Raizan
"Without music, life would be a mistake."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Remember, Information is not knowledge;
Knowledge is not Wisdom;
Wisdom is not truth;
Truth is not beauty;
Beauty is not love;
Love is not music;
Music is the best.
— Frank Zappa
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The Replacements / Alex Chilton lyrics
If he was from Venus, would he feed us with a spoon?
If he was from Mars, wouldn't that be cool?
Standing right on campus, would he stamp us in a file?
Hangin' down in Memphis all the while.
(chorus:)
Children by the million sing for Alex Chilton when he comes 'round
They sing "I'm in love. What's that song?
I'm in love with that song."
Cerebral rape and pillage in a village of his choice.
Invisible man who can sing in a visible voice.
Feeling like a hundred bucks, exchanging good lucks face to face.
Checkin' his stash by the trash at St. Mark's place.
(chorus)
I never travel far, without a little Big Star
Runnin' 'round the house, Mickey Mouse and the Tarot cards.
Falling asleep with a flop pop video on.
If he was from Venus, would he meet us on the moon?
If he died in Memphis, then that'd be cool, babe.
(chorus)
Curtis Mayfield - "Oh So Beautiful" from 1996 Album "New World Order"
"What more can I say about one of the 20th Century’s greatest musical communicators? Regulars to 'themusicologist' will know how much the man has been an inspiration to me. Featured heavily over the last 20 months and will be featured many, many more times in the future.
This cut is taken from his final album 'New World Order'. Recorded seven years after the incident that not only paralyzed but was eventually to kill him (a lighting scaffolding fell on him during a 1990 concert in Brooklyn). Remarkably he managed to finish this set laying on his back (the only way he could get enough air into his lungs), singing one line at a time. After he recorded each line, the songs were edited together.
Eric Clapton is quoted to have called New World Order 'the greatest album of the year'.
Curtis, step up and let us know what ‘time’ it is."
From "themusicologist".
Brad Paisley w/ Steve Wariner / More Than Just This Song
This duet with 1980s country star Steve Wariner is a tribute to their individual guitar teachers. Brad Paisley explained to AOL: "My verse of the song was written about my guitar teacher, Clarence 'Hank' Goddard. I got the flu in March and I had a 102 temperature, so I slept for three days, and in the midst of this fevered state, I came up with the words, 'I met this angel with callused hands.' I sang it into my computer and then went back to sleep. I found out later my teacher died the night I had the idea for the song. Steve, who is a huge influence on me, has a similar story to mine about his guitar teacher. You know my story - as a teenage boy I was taking guitar lessons and allowed into this band by a much older and wiser guitar hero. Steve has the same story, but the man who taught him was Chet Atkins."
After writing the first verse and chorus Paisley went to Wariner to help him finish writing the song. The West Virginian planned to use Goddard's guitar on the recording while Wariner planned to play one of Atkins' guitars. Paisley told AOL that something unexpected happened when they got together to put this number onto tape. He explained: "On the day of the session, Steve brought in Chet's guitar and I brought in Hank's guitar and we sat them down in the room. As I was opening the case, I told Steve to check it out because Hank had this old Gibson. When I opened the case, the bulletin from his funeral service was laying on the top of the guitar. Steve opened the case with Chet's guitar and said, 'You are not going to believe this.' Steve was the music director for Chet's funeral, and on top of that guitar was the bulletin from Chet's service at the Ryman. So here we sit with the cases open and the bulletins for both funerals are on top of the guitars. It was really weird; you get chills all over you. It was one of those moments that just felt very poetic. I cried the first few times I heard the song because I thought about Hank and how he would have loved it."
Jimi Hendrix
"I feel guilty when people say I'm the greatest on the scene. What's good or bad doesn't matter to me; what does matter is feeling and not feeling. If only people would take more of a true view and think in terms of feelings. Your name doesn't mean a damn, it's your talents and feelings that matter. You've got to know much more than just the technicalities of notes; you've got to know what goes between the notes." Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix / Message To Love lyrics
Well I travel at the speed of a reborn man
I got a lot of love to give
From the mirrors of my hand
I sent a message of love
Don't you run away
Look at your heart baby
Come on along with me today
Well I am what I am thank god
Some people just don't understand
Well help them god
Find yourself first
And then your tool
Find yourself first
Don't you be no fool
Here comes a woman
Wrapped up in chain
Messin' with that fool baby
Your life is pain
If you wanna be free
Come on along with me
Don't mess with the man
He'll never understand
I said find yourself first
And then your talent
Work hard in your mind
So you can come alive
You better prove to the man
You're as strong as him
Cause in the eyes of god
You're both children to him
Da da doo doo
Everybody come alive
Everybody live alive
Everybody love alive
Everybody hear my message
Hey, ooooo x5
Grateful Dead / Just A Little Light lyrics
Well, there ain't nobody safer than someone who doesn't care.
And it isn't even lonely when no one's ever there.
I had a lot of dreams once, but some of them came true...
The honey's sometimes bitter when fortune falls on you.
So you know I've been a soldier in the armies of the night.
And I'll find the fatal error in whats otherwise all right.
But here you're trembling like a sparrow, I will try with all my might
To give you just a little sweetness...
Just a little sweetness...
Just a little light.
I have always heard that virtue ought be it's own reward,
But it never comes so easy when you're living by the sword.
Its even harder to be heartless when you look at me that way.
You're as mighty as the flower that will grow the stones away.
Even though I been a stranger, full of irony and spite
Holding little but contempt for all things beautiful and bright,
Something shines around you and it seems, to my delight
To give me just a little sweetness...
Just a little sweetness...
Just a little sweetness...
Just a little light.
This could be just another highway, coiled up in the night.
You could be just another white-tail, baby, stranded on my brights,
Theres a tingling recognition
Like the sound of distant thunder
And I begin to wonder
If the love I've driven under
Won't ignite.
So you know Ive been a soldier in the armies of the night.
And I'll find the fatal error in what's otherwise all right.
Something shines around you that seems, to my delight
To give me just a little sweetness...
Just a little sweetness...
Just a little sweetness...
Just a little light.
