“Send each other sexy playlists. Gather your favorite songs or albums that really put you in the mood and share them with your SO. Ask them to do the same, too.”— Gina M. Florio, bustle.com
“The first beautiful songs you hear tend to stay beautiful because better than beauty, which is everywhere, is the memory of first discovering beauty.”— Sarah Manguso, amazon.com
“I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty…”— W. Somerset Maugham, amazon.com
“He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that's what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you.”— Hannah Harrington, amazon.com
“Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write the books you want to read, build the products you want to use – do the work you want to see done.”— Austin Kleon, amazon.com
“We say to musicians: ‘You articulated the feelings I thought were only mine. You made me feel a little less alone. You colored in this world, you made it visible and livable — so why can’t you drop an album every year?”— Anne Branigin, byrslf.co
“Oh what we could do with your dress up round your shoulders We could leave all our fears behind”— Mason Jennings, open.spotify.com
“Our United States of America Has quickly become a global empire Come on, see it now for what it really is Power hungry, nothing much to give Violent, all in the name of freedom”— Mason Jennings, open.spotify.com
“I'm chasing what they says a dream Thinking maybe it ain't mine... Cause that girl's in every song I sing, She's in every song I write. I can't put my dreams before her. Man, I need her with me.”— Brantley Gilbert, open.spotify.com
“Play music while you use your vibrator. Of course, you don’t want the music to be so loud that someone will bang on your door.”— Joan Price, seniorplanet.org
“The publishing industry looks a lot like one of these bestselling teenage dystopias: white and full of people destroying one another to survive.”— Daniel Jose Older, amazon.com
“The market, I am told, just doesn't demand this kind of book... because white kids won't buy a book with a black kid on the cover -- or so The Market says, despite millions of music albums that are sold in just that way.”— Daniel Jose Older, amazon.com
“Sexual union is only truly fulfilling when both parties are at the same level and definition of love. The same exchange of energy. It’s like music. Alone you have your own tune, but when it’s combined with another it can a magical, divine experience. Each part has to know when it leads, like the mel…”— Brownell Landrum, amazon.com
“I still remember these old country lanes when we did not know the answers. And I miss the way you make me feel, it's real.”— Ed Sheeran, open.spotify.com
“We found weekend jobs, when we got paid. We'd buy cheap spirits and drink them straight me and my friends have not thrown up in so long, Oh, how we've grown.”— Ed Sheeran, open.spotify.com
“Had my first kiss on a Friday night, I don't reckon that I did it right.”— Ed Sheeran, open.spotify.com
“And I miss the way You make me feel, And it's real We watched the sunset over the castle on the hill.”— Ed Sheeran, open.spotify.com
“And I've not seen the roaring fields in so long, I know I've grown and I can't wait to go home.”— Ed Sheeran, open.spotify.com