This Woman's Work Quotes

“The aspiring artists who are now a lawyer and a realtor – if there is some loss in their decisions, the loss should be put into a perspective. Arts are only placeholders for life. Some are masterful placeholders, some, less so; but all the same it is the life held by those holders that has to be lived through. One does not wrestle with life’s placeholders, but with life itself.”
― Various, This Woman's Work: Essays on Music

“An album, forgettable to the world, was a daily presence in the life of a boy for as long as that boy was alive. Music, in its absolute right to exist, perhaps is not unlike mood, or landscape – external or internal. No mood can be the wrong mood, no landscape can be the wrong landscape, as no music can be the wrong music. Often, we have the context in our minds when we call something wrong: its timing, its consequence, its relationship with others.”
― Various, This Woman's Work: Essays on Music