Fairfax Music: "In The Tradition & Beyond"

11/13/2025

“The music is not in the notes,
but in the silence between.”
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music. ”
- Marcel Marceau

11/13/2025

“Art is how we decorate space;
Music is how we decorate time.”
- Jean Michel Basquiat

11/13/2025

“Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shore, the scar of racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society. From the sixteenth century forward, blood flowed in battles over racial supremacy. We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or feel remorse for this shameful episode. Our literature, our films, our drama, our folklore all exalt it. Our children are still taught to respect the violence which reduced a red-skinned people of an earlier culture into a few fragmented groups herded into impoverished reservations.”
― Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

https://fairfaxmusic.org/blog/notes-on-blackfeet-by-richard-fairfax

11/12/2025

“We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World

11/12/2025

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10/24/2025

“… lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and … stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to “walk about” into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?”
- Wassily Kandinsky

10/24/2025

“The power of music, whether joyous or cathartic must steal on one unawares, come spontaneously as a blessing or a grace--”
- Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

“Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.”
- Albert Schweitzer

10/22/2025

“You know that I immerse myself in music, so to speak— that I think about it all day long— that I like experimenting— studying— reflecting.”
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

10/20/2025

“All my ways of being are musical and mysterious.
Yet I embrace you openly.
Ripe with expectancy.”
- Maya Angelou, Now Sheba Sings The Song

“They all trying to say something with music that you can't say with plain talk. There ain't really no words for love or pain. And the way I see it, only fools go around trying to talk their love or talk their pain. So the smart people make music and you can kinda hear about it without them saying anything.”
- Gloria Naylor, Linden Hills