Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, theres no fitting into it now. – Bob Dylan
Here the women have a metronome under their corsets, which beats time, but not music. – Israel Zangwill, Dreamers of the Ghetto, “From a Mattress Grave,” 1897 [speaking