“Once a song’s out there, it’s no longer mine. And that the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.” —Sade Adu
Category: quote
Vincent D’Onofrio interview
“There’s something very simple that we overlook. And we have to consciously remember that it exists, and it’s this: There’s always, somewhere in the room, somewhere, a tiny, tiny little thread of goodness. Always. And you have to seek it out. You have to find that tiny little thread. And you have to touch it, and pull on it. And you have to actively, consciously make that choice. And that’s…if you forget about that, then you’re lost.” —Vincent D’Onofrio, August 2017
quote from Arlo Guthrie
“My dad’s songs were really written to make certain people feel as though they had some kind of value. Because they were told from where they work and from the countries they had immigrated from that they did not.”― Arlo Guthrie
community-driven artist residencies in Mississippi
“You soak people in enough imagination, they see in each other what they can create.” –daniel johnson
2019 Kennedy Center Honors
“We would hope that art would bring us together as a nation, and make us all a little closer. We don’t want to, by any means, undermine the freedoms of the artist to see challenging things and to speak their truth, but at the same time it’s nice to see people brought together.” —LL Cool J, 12/8/2019
quote from Pops Staples
” If you sing from your heart — what comes from the heart, reaches the heart.” —Pops Staples
tweet from Neko Case
tweet from Lizzo
quote from Wynton Marsalis
“The history of jazz lets us know that this period in our history is not the only period we’ve come through together. If we truly understood the history of our national arts, we’d know that we have mutual aspirations, a shared history, in good times and bad.” —Wynton Marsalis
quote from Bradley Whitford
“Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen… yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.” —Bradley Whitford