Music can make the cerebral accessible, the subconscious hummable. It communicates our shared needs and desires as sentient beings better than any other medium.
Nellie McKayI think there are nice things about every era. I wish we could just take the nice things.
Nellie McKayI will say that art may well be the only thing that lasts, so I guess it's worth trying.
Nellie McKayIn the hierarchy of instruments, if you're a harpist, you're considered someone with a brain much more than if you're a singer. Even though singers, particularly singers who can play piano... If you go to the office of career development, you can get a gig much easier. Still, musicians tend to look down on you. I think they've got some nerve, because if they could sing, they would do it, but most of them can't.
Nellie McKay