Something small, quiet, mysterious for this most unimaginable day.
Erik Satie (1866-1925), Gnossienne 1 (c. 1890); Alessio Nanni, piano
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The only choice we get is what to worship.
—David Foster Wallace (1962-2008), This Is Water
only rock ’n’ roll
Superchunk, “Void” (2013)
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Cormac McCarthy, particularly in a book like Blood Meridian, is writing an English very remote from our own. It’s more like the King James Bible on acid, right?
—David Foster Wallace (1962-2008), in Quack This Way: David Foster Wallace & Bryan A. Garner Talk Language and Writing (2013)
Perhaps the greatest drummer who has ever lived . . .
—Brian Eno
Tony Allen
Live, “New Morning”
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Secret Agent, 2010
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When I sit down there [at the drums], that’s what I’ve been waiting for . . .
—Tony Allen
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The time to make up your mind about people is never!
—Tracy Lord, The Philadelphia Story
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You get to decide what to worship.
Zadie Smith, Changing My Mind (2009), epigraphs
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