Ch 12.6 - Music
“If the devil can talk angels out of Heaven, he can talk you into hell. Be careful who you listen to." - Unknown
a. Good Music
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"Albums. Remember those? Like books and black lives - albums still matter." - Prince at Grammy Awards for speech before presenting the Album of the Year award
As an aside, Prince was incredibly productive. He made a song almost every day. He has a vault with almost 2,000 unpublished songs in his house. Prince's Work Ethic:
"1) Work Fast - Zero friction
2) Become a Finisher
3) Stop Trying to be a Perfectionist (leaving in mistakes also leaves in emotions)
4) Make Art Every Day - If you're awake you're making music
5) Sleep - Sleep on the plane, on the bus, in the studio
6) Develop Vault Mentality - Be output driven. Save everything (even stuff not ready to be published)" - Make Art Not Content
"Tapes had side A and side B so it's only logical that their successor would be the CD." - Unknown
"Man: How do you write a symphony?
Mozart: You're too young to write a symphony.
Man: You were writing symphonies when you were 10, and I’m 21.
Mozart: Yes, but I didn’t run around asking people how to do it." - Unknown
"Well, rock ‘n roll seems to have died. Hardly any good rock bands out there now. The music is nothing compared to the music decades ago. Same with movies. The crap they make today is nothing compared to decades ago. Might as well listen to the old music and watch the old movies." - Unknown
"People in the music industry give me blank stares when I brush off 8 million dollar offers. I don't want 6 tour buses, 15 tractor trailers and a jet. I don't want to play stadium shows, I don't want to be in the spotlight. I wrote the music I wrote because I was suffering with mental health and depression. These songs have connected with millions of people on such a deep level because they're being sung by someone feeling the words in the very moment they were being sung. No editing, no agent, no bullsh*t. Just some idiot and his guitar. The style of music that we should have never gotten away from in the first place." - Oliver Anthony on why he turned down $8m from music executives. Anthony wrote 'Rich Men North of Richmond' which is a #1 hit on iTunes.
"I can’t believe it’s possible, but I love this man even more than I loved him last week." - Unknown, on Oliver Anthony's response above to the $8m from music executives
"Singing may be the one human adivity that most perfectly combines heart, mind, soul, and strength. To sing well-not in the sense of singing in perfect tune or like a professional, but in this sense of bringing heart, mind, soul, and strength to our singing-is to know wisdom. and to declare that God is this good, and that we are this in need of him.” - Andy Grouch
b. Degenerate Music
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"Dangers of listening to degenerate music:
1) Affirmations really work
2) These tendencies are worse for women
3) Dopamine - don't fry your dopamine centers (they are your source of your motivation)
4) Replace music with podcasts or instrumentals" - Hamza
"Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul... when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued with the same passion; and if over a long time he habitually listens to music that rouses ignoble passions, his whole character will be shaped to an ignoble form." - Aristotle
"What's the point of music? It's not always to have fun. Sometimes it is to help people find themselves. Music is frequency programming. What frequency are you being fed? Hz, Khz, Mhz, can target certain parts of the mind! If I want you to sleep, astrally project, or go into a meditative state I can make my music do that." - Unknown
"According to the current study, sound waves with 528 Hz frequency in 100 dB intensity induce testosterone production in brain by enhancing StAR and SF-1 and reducing P450 aromatase gene expression. Frequency of 528 Hz also reduces total concentration of reactive oxidative species in brain tissue. Prolonged exposure to this sound wave showed reduction of anxiety related behaviors in rats. The results reveal that reduced anxiety is related to increased concentration of testosterone in brain. This study may lead to ascertain a possible therapy in which sounds may be utilized to reduce anxiety in individual." - T Babayi Daylari 1, G H Riazi 2, Sh Pooyan 1, E Fathi 1, F Hedayati Katouli
“Black noise is the register within which you can crack a city, a people, it’s a new control bomb. It’s a noise bomb in fact.” - David Bowie
"However, I also believe that many of the 'household-name' musicians early in their careers are lured into a subtle trap baited with money and fame, but then once their handlers in the recording companies completely sink their claws and teeth into them, they realize that they are caught, with no possible escape route and thus are condemned to continue with their charade for the rest of their careers, which often ends prematurely for one reason or another." - John Hamer - The falsification of history
"When you get to a level of success. When you get 30, 40, 50,000 a show, you platinum, you running across the world. There's three different doors. Three different ways to walk. There's to the left. There's to the right. And then there's straight. Straight is you're on your own. Let's see if you can continue this success young man. Let's see if it's all about your skills young man. Let's really see that. You went straight. To the right I'm not sure if that's the homo shit right there. And then there's to the left I'm not sure if there's some sacrifice shit going on right there. I'm not sure because I went straight. I was offerred these doors... And I just chose to go straight. I haven't been platinum since." - N.O.R.E.
“Dylan: I made a bargain a long time ago, and I’m holding up my end.
Bradley: What was your bargain?
Dylan: To get where I am now.
Bradley: Should I ask who you made that bargain with?
Dylan: With the chief commander.
Bradley: On this earth?
Dylan: In this earth and in the world, we can’t see.”- Bob Dylan on 60 minutes talking about the deal he made with the devil.
"I kinda sang about what was going on in my life at 15. That’s how I got introduced to the music industry. I swear wanted to be the Amy Grant of music. But it didn’t work out. So I sold my soul to the devil." - Katy Perry
"I’m trapped. If I could go back I would’ve rapped. I sold my soul to the devil and I’ll never get it back." - Eminem
"If you don’t get this right now I swear to Lucifer I’m gonna get mad…" - Lady Gaga
"I sold my soul to the devil. I know it was a crappy deal. At least it came with a few toys like a Happy Meal." - Kayne West
"He's the head devil worshiper in the satanic band Knights In Satan's Service, a.k.a. KISS" - Unknown
"I like to murder and then eat teenagers" - Song by Billy Joel
"Jimmy Paige from Led Zeppelin purchased Aleister Crowley's house." - Unknown, Crowley invented the Thelema religion and was a famous English Occultist
"Any creative project that comes from an influence of 'urban' music or feminism is an attack. They create entire worlds for themselves with consoomer hamster wheels but have, at their core, a weak stupidity. It's all tainted, forgettable garbage with no higher purpose. All of it." - Unknown
"Since nobody is going to say it - I will. Social engineering through music is real. And rap is the most influential and destructive of them all. Most people argue that music is just music and that hip hop just reflects reality. But that's not true. Music creates reality. For example, when NWA released Kill the Police in 1988, violence against cops rose 300%. That alone shows you how powerfully music influences societal and cultural trends. What the industry won't openly share is the suppressed history behind the rise of gangster rap. Just like the CIA introduced crack cocaine into black ghettos of America in the 80s, thus creating the crack epidemic, the music industry has its nefarious ties as well. In the early 90s, high-level music executives have private financial interests with newly built and privately owned prisons, and they ordered hip-hop artists to diverge from conscious rap to promote drugs, violence, and sex. Thus resulting in the mainstream advancement of gangster rap. The covert goal was to encourage hip-hop artists to promote criminal behavior to increase incarceration rates and fill up privately owned prisons which would, in turn, make the executives richer. We see the same trend with pharmaceuticals influencing pop culture, given that 50% of songs include illicit drug references, and opioid sales have increased 129% since 2000. Music we see today is nothing but controlled hypnosis over youth. Now remember, if you can control the music, you can control society." - Colin Patterson
"These people are magicians. They know the human consciousness co-creates reality based on what the mind believes to be true and real. This process is amplified when instilled in the crowd consciousness. They are projecting what they WANT into your mind so you build it for them." - Unknown
"Interesting how countless rap songs encourage murder sprees, drug dealing, pimping, and countless other crimes, and they're celebrated by the media, but a video by a country singer about self defense and neighbors looking out for each other is banned," - Top YouTube Comment on Jason Aldean's Country Western Song 'Try that in a Small Town'... side note: Jason Aldean was performing during the infamous Las Vegas shooting that killed 60 people.
"I get paid to rap about that stuff. They actually pay us more to rap about more ignorant stuff." - Meek Mill on why the more ignorant things he raps about the more he gets paid.
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