Today's Quotation

Sometime back, I featured a week's worth of quotes about music, and today I read something that deserves to stand with any of those comments artists and philosophers who spanned the centuries. This was something Jeff Tweedy of the great contemporary band Wilco said in a recent interview with Mojo magazine (it was actually a dual interview with Tweedy and Mavis Staples, whose new album he produced), and it really rings true to me:

"... my theory [is] that all music basically says
the same thing, which is: you're not alone. Even
a kid in his room listening to the most abrasive
punk rock or heavy metal, what they're really
getting out of it is, 'We're in this with you.' Some-
where down deep there's a communication
happening that's sustaining..."