Music Mural in Dallas by Tommia Wright
Today’s Repeat Day. Repeat Day.
It’s amazing some of the bizarre holidays joyous June brings. National Bubba Day was yesterday, along with National Rocky Road day. Why there are days for a Forrest Gump character or yet-t0-be-filled-in-pothole-riddled-road day, I do not know. If I were to backtrack to the first of the month, handled that day swell: “Dare Day” (signed up for SoCNoC) and “Flip a Coin Day” (coin toss led to the full 50k challenge versus the HalfNoC), but I digress.
I was going to go with the question, Why do some radio stations boast a ‘no repeat music workday’ when they repeat many (too many) of the same songs during the work week? What’s more frightening is ‘dial dancing’ the car radio buttons only to hear the same song repeated on different stations, sometimes at the same point.
Maybe that’s why I like my iPod – if I wish to repeat a song, I will.
Quotes to ponder for today:
“The artist must be sacrificed to their art like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of ”culture.”” —John Cage
“Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.” — Y. Harburg
“Today we are in a war against war – music is our power.” — Michael Franti
Do you identify with Emerson’s quote (that is included in the mural above)? What music do you find worth repeating?
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