Life is a one way ticket on the Ageing 737.
Some people travel first class and others do not.
Some of our fellow passengers annoy us - some we get along with.
At times we want to turn the plane around.
But usually we are content to enjoy the ride.

Music is like a tree; it has branched out over the years and now we find the branches are extremely diverse and intermingling. Currently music is more diverse than ever and more genres are crossing over with each other than any time in history.

In the foreseeable future I see this trend continuing although there won't be any major leaps or changes in sound. That is with one exception. The one thing that will bring about big changes in the future of music is technology. Technology revolutionised music with the advent of electronic music and I'm sure sometime in the future we will see more musical and sound revelations arising from technology.

What's everybody else's thoughts on the future of music?

I thought I would make a journal entry soley for favourite quotes that I can keep updating....
Feel free to comment yours =]

"We are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves." - Bill Hicks.

"To see a world in a Grain of Sand,
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour." - William Blake.

""The people who truly deface our neighbourhoods are the companies that scrawl giant slogans across buildings and buses trying to make us feel inadequate unless we buy their stuff. They expect to be able to shout their message in your face from every available surface but you're never allowed to answer back. Well, they started the fight and the wall is the weapon of choice to hit them back." - Banksy.

"A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. The true value of a human being is determined by the measure and the sense in which they have obtained liberation from the self. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive." - Albert Einstein.

"Everything is Dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike is the same; opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; extremes meet; all truths are but half-truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled." - One of the seven Hermetic Principles from the Kybalion.

"Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh. It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. As I slooshied, I knew such lovely pictures!" - Anthony Burgess. From "A Clockwork Orange. Character - Alex.

"This is not a psychotic episode. This is a cleansing moment of clarity. I'm imbued, Max. I'm imbued with some special spirit. It's not a religious feeling at all. It's a shocking eruption of great electrical energy. I feel vivid and flashing, as if suddenly I'd been plugged into some great electromagnetic field. I feel connected to all living things. To flowers, birds, all the animals of the world. And even to some great, unseen, living force. What I think the Hindus call prana. But it's not a breakdown. I've never felt more orderly in my life. It is a shattering and beautiful sensation. It is the exalted flow of the space-time continuum, save that it is spaceless and timeless and... of such loveliness. I feel on the verge of some great, ultimate truth. And you will not take me off the air for now or for any other spaceless time!" - Paddy Chayefsky. From "Network". Character - Howard Beale.

"When we encounter the Void, we feel that it is primordial emptiness of cosmic proportions and relevance. We become pure consciousness aware of this absolute nothingness; however at the same time we have a paradoxical sense of its essential fullness. This cosmic vacuum is also a plenum since nothing seems to be missing in it. While it does not contain anything in a concrete manifest form, it seems to comprise all of existence in a potential form. In this paradoxical way we can transcend the usual dichotomy between emptiness and form, or existence and non-existence. However, the possibility of such a resolution cannot be adequately conveyed in words; it has to be experienced to be understood." - Stanislav Grof.

"In truth, the beauties of the solid and material universe are but a part of the rich spectrum of existence. The one-tenth of an iceberg that is visible above the tideline of reality. Matter is that part of being that has crystallized, where the mind's light has petrified to concrete substance." - Alan Moore. From "Promethea" Character - Margaret Taylor Case.

"In the bright mirror eyes of the Beloved, whose flaming filigree skin is a tapestry of spinning galaxies, we melt and know the one is all there is, ever has been and ever will be." - Alex Grey.