Today’s One-Liner (#116)
A true friend will stab you in the front. –Oscar Wilde, via Bob Dylan, Friends and Neighbors, Theme Time Radio Hour, 2006
Category: Music
The Good News Is …
Led Pelvis
Back to Bach
Listen to certain Preludes of Bach. They do not say much; there is a short motif repeated; then insistent variations in no higher relief than that of a medal by Roty. But what a level…
Today’s One-Liner (#107)
I laughed at all of your jokes, my love, you didn’t need to coax. –Rod Stewart, “Maggie May”
Listening to the Stones, I Thought of Saint Teresa
Sometimes you need somebody, if you have somebody to loveSometimes you ain’t got nobody and you want somebody to loveThen you don’t want to walk and talk about JesusYou just want to see His face…
Today’s One-Liner (#101)
It took me a long time to get to do consciously what I used to be able to do unconsciously. –Bob Dylan, in Jonathan Cott, Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews
Today’s One-Liner (#97)
The memory of you keeps callin’ after me like a rollin’ train –Bob Dylan, Brownsville Girl
Today’s One-Liner (#79)
My music is the production of my genius and my misery. –Franz Schubert, 1797-1828 Quoted in Phil G. Goulding, Classical Music
Today’s One-Liner (#63)
I believe in God—Bach’s God. –Glenn Gould, in Kevin Bazzana, Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould
Today’s One-Liner (#17)
Show a little faith, there’s magic in the night. –Bruce Springsteen, Thunder Road