5 Quotes by Ted Gioia about music
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When dealing with music, the personal is the political, and always has been.
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In America, music was the first sphere of social interaction in which racial barriers were challenged and overturned. And the challenge went both ways: by the mid-1920s, white bands were playing for all-black audiences at Lincoln Theater and elsewhere. These intermediate steps between segregation and integration represented, for all their problems, progress of sorts.
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In every sphere of social interaction, that hermeneutic leap—that ability to put yourself in the mind frame of the other—is a virtue and a blessing.
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Art and disease proliferate via contagion, and similar conditions favor both.
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When stealing from other players, an older musician wisely advised me, choose a different instrument from your own, and people won’t notice the theft.
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