Mass media

"The fact that there is a gap between journalists and the public is shown above all by the fact that the former are much more interested in the opinion of their colleagues than in the judgment of their readers. Compare this with a healthy system, for example that of restaurants. As we [...] have seen, restaurant owners care about the opinions of their diners, not those of other restaurant owners, which keeps restaurant owners doing what their job is; it prevents the industry as a whole from moving away from diners' interests. In addition, skin in the game creates diversity, and monoculture is prevented. Economic uncertainty exacerbates the situation. Journalists currently work in the most insecure profession imaginable: the majority live hand-to-mouth, and ostracism by colleagues would be fatal. This makes them easy victims for manipulative lobbyists, as has been seen in connection with genetically modified organisms (GMOs), the wars in Syria, and more. In this profession, if you say something unpopular about Brexit, GMOs, or Putin, you're toast. It's the exact opposite of professions where being a follower is punished." Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"As a self appointed messiah, I view music as far more than just entertainment" John Denver

"In spiritual terms MUSIC IS A MAGICAL OPERATION, A VEHICLE FOR MAN TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE GODS. Depending on whom the celebrants invoke, this can mean soaring to heaven on the voices of angels or raising beasts from the pits of hell" Michael Moynihan

"Music is a curiously subtle art with innumerable, varying emotional connotations. It is made up of many ingredients and according to the proportions of those components, it be soothing or invigorating, ennobling or vulgarizing, philosophical or orgiastic. It has the powers for evil as well as good." Dr. Howard Hanson

"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed; everything else is public relations." George Orwell

"Film is the most powerful weapon in the world. Filmmakers have the responsibility not just to entertain, but to be responsible, to inform" Steven Spielberg

"For changing peoples' manners and altering their customs there is nothing better than music." Shu Ching

"Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics." Pietro Mascagni

"Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person." Aristoteles

"Rock music is sex and you have to hit them [teenagers] in the face with it" Andrew Oldham

"As a country artist, I'm not proud of a lot of the things in my field. There is no doubt in my mind that we are contributing to the moral decline in America" Conway Twitty

"It made people feel profane. All those things they were saying about rock and roll, it's going to subvert our youth, it's going to make them to want to have sex, it will make them crazy, they were right." Billy Joel

"At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice." Gore Vidal

"American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor." Upton Sinclair