There were sweets and flowers, but Valentine’s Day here = oboe d'amore (among others.) #SMP #oboereeds
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“…the centerpiece of the movie was always ‘He Needs Me’…We were able to get hold of the original multi-track recordings, which were done down in Malta. It’s unbelievable stuff. They had so many tracks and had players play out of tune and out of time to add to the broken, hand made quality of that song. It’s unreal how good that song is, and how well Shelley Duvall sings it. It was completely inspiring.
We were shooting, and it was pretty basic stuff—like, Sandler walking down a hotel hallway—and we were screening the rushes, and I played ‘He Needs Me’ over the rushes. And most of the crew hadn’t heard the song before. And boom, right as I played it over the footage, the crew was like, ‘I fucking get what movie we’re making now, I wish you’d played this earlier.’”
—Paul Thomas Anderson, on the music in his movies
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On silence and mystery
[Mystery is] probably 100% of the reason for music appealing to me. If there’s no mystery then there’s no reason to listen to it because you’ve already got figured it out. That’s the whole thing right there….
[M]usic starts, when you’re starting a song the only thing you have is silence and silence is pretty damn sweet. Once you start making some sound, it better be good because you’re ruining the silence that makes you feel good and relaxed. I feel like you can only make a sound if it’s better than silence… [I’m] very conscious of the power of nothing, the power of nothing being there. You’ll notice it’s still about the best thing anyone playing with me on a record can do is just stop playing. Because you got this instrument in your hand and it’s really fun to make the noise with it, but it means so much more when you’re not playing it.
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The greatest thing about having a child is putting yourself second in your own life. It’s a massive gift to be able to say that you’re not the most important person to yourself… that’s always going to let you down… The idea of, ‘I’ve got to get me right. I’ve got to get what I want.’ That’s never going to quite work. You know, life just isn’t that satisfying. But if you can be useful to somebody else, that you can actually accomplish. You can go, ‘I did a pretty damn good job today as a dad - pretty good - best as I could.’ That’s worth so much more, you know? […] If you can be useful — which means to somebody else, not to yourself — if you can be useful, it just makes you feel better. So I live in service for my kids, you know?
— Louis C.K. (via austinkleon)
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“I don’t want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
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“Marriage is tough. You have to try and be your best self at all times. The horrid, petty, lying sack of shit you know yourself to be has to be daily wrestled to the ground. And it’s not like your heart curls up and dies; it continues to want and want and want. It, too, must be wrestled to the ground.”
—Elisa Albert, After Birth
