'Most people have music in the center of their lives. I believe my work sheds light on how music affects us and why it is so influential.' from http://www.ucla.edu/spotlight/archive/html_2001_2002/fac0502_mcclalry.html

'Rather than protecting music as a sublimely meaningless activity that has managed to escape social signification, I insist on treating it as a medium that par…

'Tonality itself - with its process of instilling expectations and subsequently withholding promised fulfillment until climax - is the principal musical means …

'The point of recapitulation in the first movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony unleashes one of the most horrifyingly violent episodes in the history of musi…

'Elvis was one of the prime architects of rock and roll music. As such, he influenced several generations both musically and socially. The urgency in Presley's…

To be a catalyst is one of my life's objectives. I've been inspired by many people who in turn have been catalysts. It's very interesting to see the waves of i…

'I, like, would run into walls and stuff. I was INSANE.' ~ Rufus on his childhood