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Foreward | |
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Acknowledgements | |
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Introduction | |
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Children: "I dance to 'Dude Looks Like a Lady'." | |
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"You have to have a lullaby before you sleep." | |
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"I just play with my songs..." | |
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"I was stuck in the snow cave, and I felt like listening to music." | |
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"They teach us so that we know what to do with our kids when we grow up." | |
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"I like to look for things that people don't really recognize." | |
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Teenagers: "What would the human ear do...?" | |
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" They play weird songs you have to be so old to know." | |
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" Rap is things you say fast." | |
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"Sometimes I think about life, and all the problems I have." | |
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"I still have my violin from when I was five." | |
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"I listen to other music and then I go see the Dead." | |
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Young Adults: "It's the first remedy for trying to get out of my boredom." | |
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"... if I were to cuss someone out right after church, what does my singing mean?" | |
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"I'm not gonna sit there and worship someone." | |
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" It's about aggression." | |
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"Roger Waters is really it for me." | |
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"It's hard to explain...it's all feelings and emotions..." | |
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"They feel it more because they created the instrument." | |
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"It is not the making sound...it is how one nation expresses its opinion." | |
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Adults: "Music is just part of life, like air." | |
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"It's a kind of critiquing...an enjoyable critiquing." | |
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"...I can't wait to come home and get back to my Neil Diamond." | |
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" I can't give it up." | |
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"To be the creator of it is to participate directly in that point of coherence of the earth, of the universe, of humanity, of meaning; all else is darkness." | |
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"I like mood tapes, subliminals, and new age music. That really sets me free." | |
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"As I developed from childhood to adulthood, the music developed with me." | |
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"...if I don't think of music in terms of dance, I'll think of it in terms of colors." | |
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"...if I don't know it perfectly, I won't do it." | |
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Older Adults: "I actually become what I hear." | |
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"...country and western is the only... adult music" | |
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"It can make you cry, and then other times it can really perk you up." | |
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"...the types of music that sells today is for that age group that really doesn't care about the words." | |
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"...if I were home cleaning by myself during the day I might put Pavarotti on and have it shaking to the rafters!" | |
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"Regardless of what it is, somebody likes it." | |
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"I would say thirty percent of what I know about life today was gleaned from songs." | |
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Elders: "...when I was in the service, when we had the band playing, it instilled a lot of things in you." | |
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"When you sing, you pray twice." | |
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"...if anybody wanted to dance at a party I was at the piano." | |
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"Well, I was beautiful then and, boy, could I dance." | |
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"It takes the fear away from you." | |
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Apendix: Music in Daily Life Guidelines | |
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Index | |