Quotes by : Geoffrey O'Brien

Yet the laboriously sought musical epiphany rarely compares to the unsought, even unwanted tune whose....

Christmas is the marriage of chaos and design. The real sound of life, for once, can burst out because....

To attempt to describe how music pervades and flavors a life feels a little like an invasion of privacy,....

The age of recording is necessarily an age of nostalgia--when was the past so hauntingly accessible?--but....

The question of what exactly we remember when we listen to old recordings, or whether it can be called....

Scattered among these things are reminders that sound once existed: a metronome, a drumming pad, a guitar....

I learned that the day "The Viper's Drag" slipped from between my fingers. But whatever might be lost....