Book "When Nietzsche wept": quotes commented

1. "I have a reason to live and I can face any how."

When we find meaning in life bracing ourselves for the difficulties. Small failures become tolerable in the name of the great victories.

2. "Normally, this is not the question asked is important."

This shows the revelatory force of silence, the silence precisely true, since the resignation of words does not always confer legitimacy to silence.

3. "Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings: always darker, empty and simple."

Contrary to this assertion, our western society overemphasizes the intellect, reason, thinking, and underestimates the emotions, intuition, feeling.

4. "What good is a book that transports us beyond all the books?"

I wish if we read all that results in a transcendental purpose in our lives, but it must also be open to such a perspective.

5. "The important thing is the courage to be ourselves."

Take our own unique self in the face of interference and multiplicity of all the "other" is not an easy task and requires a truly courageous.

6. "Do not nobody love: love is actually the good feelings that this love produces. Love is a desire and not what you want. "

It is possible to separate the desire of the desired? The desire itself, without the unwanted, become somewhat abstract, metaphysical, emptied, and therefore unable to please?

7. "The best tree ascends to greater heights and plunges its roots deeper."

A good metaphor to highlight the proportional dimensions of the development, warning that the expansion of outward growth requires proper depth inside.

8. "These are idle thoughts ... is not a plan. "

It is apparently difficult to distinguish an idle thought of something deliberately planned. It would be a matter of content, substance and scope of planning?

9. "I dream of a love in which two people share a passion together to seek a higher truth. Perhaps his real name is friendship. "

Love, in this sense, it would be par excellence the radicalization of friendship. Would the friendship shared in all its fullness, magic and expression.

10. "Die at the right time! Live while living! Death loses its terror when it dies after consumed his life! "

If we do not do justice to his life, death can still kill us in life. Every moment lived before death must be full of life and devoid of death.

Book: When Nietzche wept
Autor: Irvin D. Yalon

Folk: em alto e bom som

O folk rock é o que pode se chamar de a mistura entre elementos de rock’n’roll e música “folclórica” (um estilo musical típico da história de alguma região ou país).

O termo surgiu na década de 60, mais especificamente nos Estados Unidos e Canadá, e suas características mais marcantes eram os vocais bem afinados e uma proposta mais “orgânica” de utilização instrumental. A guitarra, por exemplo, era raramente distorcida. Uma grande inspiração para o estilo foi o músico Bob Dylan. O princípio do folk rock pode ser considerada um belo arranjo de folk somado a uma base clássica de rock’n’roll.

Já na década de 70, o folk rock passou a ramificar-se em outras vertentes como o celtic rock, acid folk, o folk progressivo e o folk psicodélico.

O Celtic Rock combina elementos da música celta e batidas de rock, basicamente. Podem ser destacadas aí algumas nacionalidade que inspiram o estilo como Irlanda e Escócia. Entre os instrumentos diversos estão o banjo, flauta, acordeom e a gaita-de-fole.

O folk psicodélico, por sua vez, combina instrumentos acústicos, na maioria das vezes, e batidas densas, formando um som atmosférico. As letras têm uma inspiração psicodélica, narrando uma viagem fantástica ou um “barato” decorrente do uso de alguma droga.

Jethro Tull
O Jethro Tull representa tanto uma fantástica banda de folk rock, quanto uma adepta do estilo celtic. O vocalista Ian Anderson tem uma voz única e sabe bem como usá-la. O músico ainda toca uma flauta transversal, marca registrada do grupo.

Para ouvir

“Too Old for Rock’n’Roll, too You to Die”, “Crossed-Eyed Mary”, “Aqualung”, “Hymn 43”.

Curiosidades

“Thick as a Brick” é um dos mais famosos álbuns da banda. Na verdade, trata-se de uma única longa música (de 48 minutos) separada entre os dois lados do LP.

Discografia

This Was (1968)
Stand Up (1969)
Benefit (1970)
Aqualung (1971)
Thick as a Brick (1972)
A Passion Play (1973)
War Child (1974)
Minstrel in the Gallery (1975)
Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die! (1976)
Songs from the Wood (1977)
Heavy Horses (1978)
Stormwatch (1979)
A (1980)
Broadsword and the Beast (1982)
Under Wraps (1984)
A Classic Case (1985)
Crest of a Knave (1987)
Rock Island (1989)
Catfish Rising (1991)
Roots to Branches (1995)
J-Tull Dot Com (1999)
The Jethro Tull Christmas Album (2003)

Fairport Convention
Considerada a primeira banda inglesa de electric folk, o Fairport Convention foi formado pelos músicos Simon Nicol, Richard Thompson, Ashley Hutchings e Shaun Frater, em 1967, e continua na ativa até hoje.

Para ouvir

“Book Song”, “Crazy Man”, “It’s Alright Ma, It’s only witchcraft”, “White Dress”.

Discografia

Fairport Convention (1968)
What We Did on Our Holidays (1969)
Unhalfbricking (1969)
Liege & Lief (1969)
Full House (1970)
Angel Delight (1971)
Babbacombe Lee (1971)
Rosie (1973)
Nine (1973)
Rising for the Moon (1975)
Gottle O'Geer (1976)
The Bonny Bunch of Roses (1977)
Tipplers Tales (1978)
Gladys Leap (1985)
Expletive Delighted (1986)
In Real Time (1987)
Heyday (1987)
Red And Gold (1989)
The Five Seasons (1990)
Jewel in the Crown (1995)
Old New Borrowed Blue (1996)
Who Knows Where the Time Goes (1997)
The Cropredy Box (1998)
Cropredy 98 (1999)
The Wood and the Wire (1999)
XXXV (2001)
Over the Next Hill (2004)
Sense of Occasion (2007)

Outras bandas:

Thiasos Dionysos
The Byrds
The Sandpipers
Renaissance
Crosby, Stills & Nash

Veja também: > Dia Mundial do Rock