Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Music has become so ever-present in our lives. You can't walk through a shopping mall or go into a restaurant without what we used to call Muzak.
I don't do lullabyes.
Basically, my mother couldn't hold a tune and when I was a baby, a rather tactless baby, I would ask her not to sing... you can't get to sleep if someone is singing off key nearby.
Some children's music is aimed just at kids, and it can be very childlike.
Music has the ability to comfort people.
I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience.
My husband is a composer, so he plays piano all the time and I sit there and clap telling my unborn child, 'Hear me clap, hear the music.' I know music, in general, is supposed to be good for babies to hear.
I'm a mutt as far as music is concerned because I listen to everything.
There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.
Like all right-listening folk, I am an implacable enemy of all muzak.