Conversations with Tyler / episode intelligence
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25 published records
01 / belief
“I think that you look at the blues, and it’s definitely a music of anguish and tragedy and personal suffering.”
02 / belief
“If we think about the accelerated advancement of women in music — today it might be St.”
03 / belief
“I think that there’s this mystical aspect of music in which it becomes very hypnotic, but it’s also embedded in the culture.”
04 / belief
“Robots will create the perfect musical life. My belief, based on my understanding of music history, is that won’t happen.”
05 / belief
“I believe all genre fiction deserves more credit from serious literary figures. There’s a tremendous amount of creativity.”
06 / belief
“I’m not personally a huge fan of metal music, but I think in terms of the whole music ecosystem, it’s tremendously underrated.”
07 / belief
“I think the most important skill anyone can develop is time management skills, how you use your day. But there is one principle I want to stress because this is very important to me, and when people ask me for advice — and once again, this cuts across all fields — but this is the advice I give.”
08 / belief
“Now probably, the advent of digital technologies leads to it, but I think we need a new African infusion in our music that shakes things up and gets us away from mathematics and back toward sound.”
09 / belief
“I came to opera late, and when I did, I actually had to force myself to listen to opera. At a certain point, I realized this was a gap in my musical education.”
10 / belief
“Then around 2000 — and people will say 9/11 made this happen, but I think the roots were already before that — everything changed.”
11 / observation
“We now learn that at the highest level of peak athletic performance, a lot of care is taken to what songs you listen to while you do your athletic work. And I could give you 50 other examples, but the point is there’s nothing wrong with music being integrated into life experiences, and in fact, we should cultivate that.”
12 / observation
“There’s all sorts of interesting things happening. But the problem is, they created a public image over the course of 50 years that classical music was just noise and difficult to listen to.”
13 / belief
“The Jarrett one is probably the place to start, surprisingly enough. I would say Keith Jarret, yeah.”
14 / uncertainty
“I don’t know. I really don’t know, but I do think there was this notion of having a talent scout who knew a lot about music, had been around for many years, really understood the ups and downs, often was a musician, too.”
15 / belief
“I’m one of these strange chronologists who believed the Beatles just got better and better. And I think you could make a case each album is better than the last.”
16 / evaluation
“Occasionally I see someone play them. But a fascinating guy, and he’s one of these people that was punished by being able to do too many things well because society wants to put you in a pigeonhole.”
17 / evaluation
“I think Tolstoy is overrated as a novelist, but he’s underrated as a social figure because he influenced people that joined these communes.”
18 / preference
“In fact, I’ve got to say I prefer the quiet restaurant, but I understand everybody else wants the noisy restaurant.”
19 / evaluation
“Both we rely on the cloud to preserve our music, but also, we no longer rely on music to preserve our culture. This is potentially a dangerous thing because it could create a situation where our musical lives grow more and more distant from our actual social lives with the people around us in our larger community.”
20 / prediction
“I don’t think it will ever happen again. And what happened is — you must give credit to the Beatles because everyone was imitating the Beatles, and they changed their sounds every six months, every year.”
21 / preference
“You’d be surprised how much of my music research, I rely on what I learned at the Boston Consulting Group and McKinsey, just applying those analytical skills.”
22 / evaluation
“We had these mathematical formulas we used to predict the spread of an innovation, and I found that these mathematical formulas had all been developed to track diseases.”
23 / prediction
“In fact, I would say that music is the only form of entertainment in which the technology has gotten worse during my lifetime.”
24 / evaluation
“Then as I was doing the research, I realized that, in fact, the cool ethos was something that had a beginning and an end.”
25 / evaluation
“The fundamental change here is, you now have a distribution system for music in which some of the players do not have a vested interest in the broader musical experience and ecosystem. This is tremendously dangerous, and that’s the real reason why I fear the growth of streaming, is because the people involved in streaming don’t like music.”