The louder the music, the harder it is to listen to it.
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Music silences verbal thinking, offering it another medium.
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Music is vibration’s grand invention.
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People are like tuning forks—always catching and matching one another’s vibes.
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Big data misunderstands the nature of your musical tastes.
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Music playlists are covert forms of style discrimination.
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Four-on-the-floor beats reduce any music’s expressive options—literally boxing it in.
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Music that’s immune to repetition’s deleterious effects
(e.g. rendering something less interesting over time)
is the music most worth your listening time.
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After the fact, musical style can be mapped as a linear progression,
but that’s not how it’s evolving right now.
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Music soundtracks suggest that we always need help
interpreting the emotional undercurrents of a situation.
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Rhythmically complex music and melodically complex music
are like stories about themselves,
teaching us how to track multiple characters at the same time.
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The quieter the music, the more resonant its gestures.
