No Music Day - View Statements

I am observing No Music Day because: a big boy told me to

I will be observing No Music Day by: Falling out with my wife (achieved) because I switched that cunt Wogan and his trite and asinine "broadcasting" off the radio when he started singing along to "Sloop John B"; not being able to listen to music at work anyway (achieved); thinking about how I can learn to play my new lap steel without being lectured by a music nazi in an "instructional" video (ongoing); avoiding conversation with people who think they know what music they like ongoing).

Murdoch>
22/11/2005

I will be observing No Music Day by: I observed NO MUSIC DAY by going into shops in my town, telling them to turn their music off, unless they had a PRS licence, as i couldnt hear myself think. The idoits fell for it as well.

Dj Fingers - Grantham
22/11/2005

I will be observing No Music Day by: but it's my brother's birthday, how can i sing him "happy birthday" without making music you fucking cunt?

dazzles
22/11/2005

I am observing No Music Day because: Maybe Im past it, but music just leaves me with a feeling of empty alienation-the mainstream wears the clothes & spoutes the rhetoric of the subversive, and false prophets everywhere are given authenticity by a savvy media that controls the zeitgeist..a racoon eyed desolation angel once said that all rebellion is corporate owned (shortly before he himself signed for Sony), but he also said somthing that echoes todays vapidity, and offers hope.."It takes a genius to make a fake the standard by which we come to judge the genuine"
Im observing this day because I still want to believe in the myth of rock, but accept in the pit of my stomach that its all over..PS ask yourself if Oasis ever mattered, & why the buying public still handjobs their feeble scrawls at paunched out rebellion..x

I will be observing No Music Day by: Not listening to any records that have inspired me at any point in my life, not tuning in & dropping out to the 24/7 audio visual bilge spewed forth from MTV,VH-1 & and other assorted mindf**k channels.NOT reading the NME or Kerrap! (but who REALLY does anyway anymore?),Trying to avoid seeing or hearing Zane Lowe because he is just WRONG and is to John Peel what Geoff Horsfield is to Pele..

Tommy Nadir
22/11/2005

I am observing No Music Day because: ;

I will be observing No Music Day by: Theodor Adorno was right

rob"
22/11/2005

I will be observing No Music Day by: the next time because I only found the site today.

Bob
22/11/2005

I am observing No Music Day because: From the day forth I will have new ears.

I will be observing No Music Day by: Doing what it says on the tin.

Robert Mullen
22/11/2005

I am observing No Music Day because: I have to fart big time!

I will be observing No Music Day by: listing to a fart cd.

kajshdh
22/11/2005

I will be observing No Music Day by: I did not observe NO MUSIC DAY cos I didnt know until the Guardian printed a piece. Bit of a fart during a thunderstorm that one.

takinogawa424
22/11/2005

I am observing No Music Day because: May its a matter of age or experience in life...but i did not obey dem Day. I tried but it wasnt possible,you always want dem apple even if somebody tells you No!.The process of thinking was ok but yk...everybody has his own private NMD....i also prefer to hear the Beach Boys Christmas album in the summer instead of around Christmastyme.

I will be observing No Music Day by: I failed, i heard music on "No Music Day"....that tells me that im still curious to hear music/about new music.

Markus S.
23/11/2005

I will be observing No Music Day by: Here at The Quiet Club we marked No Music Day by going for a soundwalk around Bristol.

Before we set off we observed a minute s silence and looked at some Tranquil Maps of England (CPRE) and the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE). Then we discussed the following quotations:

Music goes both ways. You make yourself heard and you listen to others. Yehudi Menuhin

I can t hear myself think.

Silence is twice as fast backwards.

You have the right to remain silent.

A little with quiet is the only dyet. George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

Amplification is the curse of civilisation - Ivor Cutler

When I do die I shall be glad to get away from loud pop music and motor cars. - Ivor Cutler

I don't like noise. In fact one of the reasons I don't like church ministers is because they're uptight and make these special noises when they speak. - Ivor Cutler

Tranquillity lubricates the soul; musak destroys it. - Spike Milligan

"Silence is the only phenomenon today that is useless. It does not fit into the world of profit and utility; it simply is. It seems to have no other purpose; it cannot be exploited. - Max Picard - The Nature of Silence, Harvill Press, London, 1948 translation.

The song of the earth is never dead John Keats

Poetry is the song of the earth - Jonathan Bate

In those days the world teemed, the people multiplied, the world bellowed like a wild bull, and the great god was aroused by the clamour. Enlil heard the clamour and he said to the gods in council, "The uproar of mankind is intolerable and sleep is no longer possible by reason of the babel." So the gods agreed to exterminate mankind.

- The Epic of Gilgamesh

The twentieth century is, among other things, the Age of Noise. Physical noise, mental noise and noise of desire - we hold history's record for all of them. And no wonder, for all of the resources of our almost miraculous technology have been thrown into the current assault against silence. That most popular and influential of all recent inventions, the radio, is nothing but a conduit through which a prefabricated din can flow into our homes. And this din goes far deeper of course, than the ear-drums. It penetrates the mind, filling it with a babel of distractions - news items, mutually irrelevant bits of information, blasts of corybantic or sentimental music, continually repeated doses or drama that bring no catharsis, but merely create a craving for daily or even hourly enemas...Spoken or printed, broadcast over the ether or on wood-pulp, all advertising copy has but one purpose - to prevent the will from ever achieving silence. Desirelessness is the condition of deliverance and illumination. The condition of an expanding and technolo! gically progressive system of mass production is universal craving. Advertising is the organised effort to extend and intensify craving - to extend and intensify, that is to say, the workings of that force, which (as all the saints and teachers of all the higher religions have always taught) is the principal cause of suffering and wrong-doing and the greatest obstacle between the human soul and its divine Ground.

The Perrenial Philosophy

by Aldous Huxley

Chatto and Windus, 1946

from Chapter 15 Silence, p. 225.

kick back,

Matt Rose

The Quiet Club

Bristol

Matt Rose
23/11/2005

I will be observing No Music Day by: ..... whoever came up with that idea can come around mine and hear these great riffs whilst kissing my arse!

Gizz
23/11/2005

I am observing No Music Day because: it is time for a change; music listening (like anything) can become a thoughtless habit and it is good to have greater consciousness of why we do what we do and what we truly desire.

I will be observing No Music Day by: not listening to music if i can help it

Ben Blohowiak
23/11/2005

I am observing No Music Day because: In the future I will observe no music day because it to truly appreciate, invent, make and play music we have to learn to listen. This perhaps is the most important art in any creatives make up and we have forgotten it.

I will force all those who work for, associated with our music organisation to observe this day as a sanctity so that it forces people to once again listen.

I will be observing No Music Day by: I failed to observe music day as I didn't know it existed. BUT I will do so in the future.

Dolan Hewison
23/11/2005

I am observing No Music Day because: 1997 What the fuck is goin on? Will We see you again in 2 years?

I will be observing No Music Day by: 1987 What the fuck is going on?

BB>
23/11/2005

I am observing No Music Day because: I like the other sounds....

I will be observing No Music Day by: Listening...

Dr. F. Ordo>
25/11/2005

I am observing No Music Day because: it's justified.

I will be observing No Music Day by: closing my ears and relishing the four senses i'm left with.

GAPE ARSON>
25/11/2005

I am observing No Music Day because: Its healthy

I will be observing No Music Day by: drinking large quantities of liquid morpine, thus rendering my ears unusable.

Mark
27/11/2005

I am observing No Music Day because: music makes me happy,

I will be observing No Music Day by: Getting in a time machine back to november 21st 2005, buying a pair of isolation headphones and sleeping in a pill enduced coma.

Dexter Fitzgerald
27/11/2005

I am observing No Music Day because: it might be good for me

I will be observing No Music Day by: leaving my headphones at home

Philip Mantom>
28/11/2005

I am observing No Music Day because: i am wishing i did xxx

I will be observing No Music Day by: saying sorry mr drummond :

we were ignorant of no music day and sung hymns in the bath.

i.o.u. cake (a ginger bit cake)

thecakesociety>
1/12/2005

I am observing No Music Day because: I am very sorry for messing up no music day by being the only source of music on the planet on 21st nov.

I will be observing No Music Day by: Bugger I forgot it was no music day and didn't carry out any of my plans.

Peter Maskell>
2/12/2005

I will be observing No Music Day by: i think i observed no music day as i cant remember listening to music on no music day

davidcalderreid
9/12/2005

I am observing No Music Day because: the ringing in my ears is as rancid as 99% of the unnecessary audio i am subjected to by default of residing on this horrible planet, and more to the point in this forever musically backwards city. classic scouse sound anyone?
hand me the grenades.

I will be observing No Music Day by: demanding silence on the streets of liverpool upon anyone i catch listening to the rancid stuff & putting down a harsh outcome to anyone i know found in the act of consuming audio.
(tho i will arrange our evening of weapons grade live musical experimentation to take place the following day inorder to sooth the withdrawal of not only myself but the many audio addicts i deal with)

stignoise
20/3/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: It makes sense to evaluate your approach to the everyday.

I will be observing No Music Day by: Having a silent disco. With no headphones.

Martyn>
8/4/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: barrie j davies is an artist

I will be observing No Music Day by: turn off all radios and reading a good book

barrie j davies
20/4/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: People need to fill in the blanks themselves once in a while.

I will be observing No Music Day by: I'll play complex drum solos in public without actually letting the sticks hit anything.

Rob Vincent>
23/4/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: the RIAA have robbed the joy from listening to music. I am not a criminal for putting my purchased music on different devices.

I will be observing No Music Day by: turning it all off. Everything. Every devi ce that delivers music and advertising into my life will be silenced.

Davi5
17/5/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: It's a wonderful idea and an oppurtunity to think about what music means to me in my life.

I will be observing No Music Day by: Neither writing music or listening to it, no TV, I-Pod, Decks, Samplers, Laptop, Guitars, Whistling, Humming or singing.

Steve Bird
18/5/2006

I will be observing No Music Day by: because music is like wetting your pants. At first it's warm and cousy but then it becomes cold and sticky

kiss i brallan
19/5/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: ... Screw that! I'm stickin it to the man!

I will be observing No Music Day by: ... hold on. a whole DAY without my iPod? yeah right.

cq
15/8/2006

I will be observing No Music Day by: Cancelling music theory tuition (not the reading music shite etc, but the theory as in the 'musical truth') and not recording in my studio (that means going to bed with a bus book at 9.30pm approx). And because my latest release was in the Tesco/amazon charts (mogology). So, there for, i can relax and promote this great day. I want a 'No music year'

Kevin Dean
18/8/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: I love the idea of no music day because it gives the average bloke a chance to experience the beauty of a life without music. Who knows? Maybe some will be so moved that they decide to forgo it for the rest of their lives.

I will be observing No Music Day by: I'm deaf. Is that cheating?

Elmo Henderson
31/8/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: there is too much garbage called music in the public radio stations

I will be observing No Music Day by: Staying at home and reading a book

christian pˆschl
3/9/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: I need a break.

I will be observing No Music Day by: Refusing to sing in the shower, leaving the car radio at home, turning off MTV, and working on my novel, in radio silence.

James Baldock>
7/9/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: More than ever I find myself listening to the same things every day to the point that it's just background noise; I don't even listen to it. So let's just switch the background noise off for a day and see how it feels.

I will be observing No Music Day by: Simply refusing to switch Winamp or any other media player on for the whole day, or at least for as long as I can stand it. If I can figure out how, I shall make a two-hour-long sound file and broadcast it via Streamer or Shoutcast.

Phil Smith
10/9/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: I'm not observing it because it's butt stupid.

I will be observing No Music Day by: Wailing on my guitar. CRANKED

Me
11/9/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: it has no worth outside the fashion we choose to follow. if that were not the case then you would like all music.

I will be observing No Music Day by: Going to a quiet place. placing plugs in my ears.

Jon Duncan-Rees
21/9/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: I am not observing no music day.

I will be observing No Music Day by: not observing no music day. I will continue to listen to music on this day as everyday. I know exactly what I want from music.

Welly
24/9/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: i am a good boy

I will be observing No Music Day by: not singing with my vocal ensemble

justin
28/9/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: I'm tired of those '90s-style websites with a stupid techno loop on background!

I will be observing No Music Day by: Avoiding (more than ever) those '90s-style websites with a stupid techno loop on background.

Olivier
3/10/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: I work in a music shop, and it would make for amusing Black Books style stand-offs.

I will be observing No Music Day by: thinking about music and silence. The higher the standard of the music you generally listen to, the more you realise that music truly is the cup that holds the wine of silence.

Paul "The Moonman" Moonman
4/10/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: Your not allowed to play music on the golf course, and I like golf.

I will be observing No Music Day by: Playing golf.

Roky
5/10/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: alex

I will be observing No Music Day by: listening to music very loud

6/10/2006

I am observing No Music Day because:

1 - As most broadcast music has become aural wallpaper and ipods merely an excuse to crush individual awareness with the sonic doodles perpetrated by the latest fad to hit the charts, a deliberate attempt to eradicate all musical activity for 1 day provides the impetus for us all to wake up and realise what music is and then consider what it could be if we reset the hands of the clock to zero.

2 - Too much music has become a kind of reflexive response to existence in that we consume it in the same way we might drink a beer or smoke a cigarette. The absence of any music at all for a whole day could in theory allow us the space to re-evaluate the purpose of music and our response to it.

3 - My God, don't I sound like an old wind-bag at times!

I will be observing No Music Day by:

1 - Listening to Resonance FM all day.

2 - Watching the first 3 Sergei Eisenstein films (Strike, Battleship Potempkin and October 1917) with the soundtrack turned off.

3 - Working on my essays for our website on my computer.

Andy Martin
9/10/2006

I will be observing No Music Day by: Fuck you I'm not a mindless drone. I'll live my life they way I want, and I'll play my music.

Jack
9/10/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: My friend Paul sent me an email saying he was going to and I don't have a mind of my own.

I will be observing No Music Day by: Fully appreciating the Cage-ian philosophy that there's no such thing as silence and that all sound is music. Thus NO MUSIC DAY looks like it's gonna be an exercise in ambient audition.

Seb H
10/10/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: I don't think I've ever experienced a day where I haven't listened to amplified music.

I will be observing No Music Day by: spending my time in N10 1EG without reaching for the ON button.

Sheikh Ahmed
10/10/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: It should be enforced, not once a year but once a week, at least, and maybe a week in the summer too.

I will be observing No Music Day by: not forcing my apauling taste on anyone, and hoping everyone else has the decency to reciprocate.

monkeyonatrike
11/10/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: Its there.

I will be observing No Music Day by: Carrying on as normal, but quieter.

paul
11/10/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: I have the right to speak through music. I was put in prison by the Pinochet dictatorship for doing exactly that: playing music. I never stop playing and I never will, its my right and my duty. I understand if people -myself included- are fed up with the garbage we have to put up with and want silence, fine, but suppress the right to express oneself I am against. I will be playing as much and as loud as I can that day

I will be observing No Music Day by: I will not be observing no music day by playing any instrument or object that I find. Silence is dead

LUKAX SANTANA
11/10/2006

I will be observing No Music Day by: hearing others suffer as they deny themselves music. I will play music louder for those without.

Andrew Lagowski
13/10/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: I love music. To remind myself that there is no limit to the amount of music we can make, although we don't actually seem to value it. Let's stop, breathe in, and think about what we're producing and buying.

I will be observing No Music Day by: Avoiding spillage from others' iPods. Not going into shops where music is used as an aid to selling t-shirts and video games. By going for a walk in the park. By reading. By the 'Today' programme.

Pete
13/10/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: I love music.

I will be observing No Music Day by: Refraining from all consumption of music and all intentional sound-design.

Jim Schliestett>
15/10/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: I am a media savvy sheep like everyone else..

I will be observing No Music Day by: Puncturing my eardrums with a conductor's baton....

Rahman
15/10/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: I am a radio and club DJ, and MUSIC is still quite ALIVE, you all are merely jaded.

One of my radio shows is called Music Out of Bounds, and I play all kinds of GREAT music that one isn't likely to hear anywhere else.

Good Music is dead?

BAH! You live in a sterile box if you believe that...

I will be observing No Music Day by: Spining CD's at The Caspar Inn, in Mendocino county, CA, and enjoying the people DANCING to the GREAT TUNES I spin!

WH00T!

Mixxter D
15/10/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: until the world takes a stand to end all poverty and starvation

I will be observing No Music Day by: shutting out the chaos and noise of an industry run by greed at any cost to humanity, a silent protest for change that ;listens to the music within

chlo
15/10/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: My music is shit

I will be observing No Music Day by: stuffing cotton wool into my ears... wrapping myself in carpets and hanging from a tree...

Tony Razzo
15/10/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: I think its am artistically worthy idea.We are forcefed music all day all year.This must surely surreptitiously render it redundant and impotent.

I mean if you had a wank every day it just wouldnt be the same would it?

Come to think of it I do...hmm when's no wanking day?

I will be observing No Music Day by: Observing a musicless bliss all fuckin day.Unless playing the sound of silence counts.But I hate Simon and Garfunkel anyway.Apologist twats.

What about the John Cage silent piece? Is that flagrant rule breaking?

TiffanyPCheese
15/10/2006

I will be observing No Music Day by: I will *not* be observing no music day, because -- no matter how jaded I may have become, or how uninspiring music may have become for me -- my one-year-old twin children are just beginning to discover the magic of music, and so I plan to spend some time that day -- as I do almost every day -- playing ukulele and singing songs I've written for them fifteen minutes before.

Dave O
15/10/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: I word for a record company. It's all our fault, and I feel ashamed.

I will be observing No Music Day by: Avoiding music as much as possible, wherever possible.

SK
15/10/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: there is no silence anywhere

I will be observing No Music Day by: continuing my work on compiling and gathering a chronological playlist on mp3 of every top forty hit from 1978-1984 none excluded to have as a soundtrack for however long it takes - this is my version of a time machine and the closest i will get to hearing NOTHING

Kay Lester
15/10/2006

I will be observing No Music Day by: playing a gig. screw this! how about NO television day? or NO competitive sports day or even NO "what's the neighbor up to" day?

3 feet up
15/10/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: music is very important to me. Too important to take for granted.

I will be observing No Music Day by: thinking about music with words, music without words, music with voices, music without voices. Thinking about what music does for me, and whether i like hearing "songs" or "sounds".

Also, i'll be trying to keep away from unnecessary and pointless NOISE (ie much of the ambient music i hear).

paul saich
15/10/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: maybe it'll give me a fresh perspective on music and how much i value it.

and so shite radio jingles will not plague the airwaves for one day...

hmmmmm that'll be the day

I will be observing No Music Day by: not playing,listening to or writing any music. no whistling, no humming little ditties, nada.

Sam
15/10/2006

I will be observing No Music Day by: not observing it. this is one of the dumbest thing I've ever heard of.

fukinlame
15/10/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: My first single: Karma Chameleon - Culture Club

My First album: Sacred Heart - Shakespears Sister

I was born in 1980 and grew up in the 1980s. My parents allowed myself and my sister to buy a new single every two weeks. No downloads, No Ipods and two weeks to consume a 2:30 minute pop record. It was great. Its the way i listened to music way up until the late-90s...

Pop music has been swallowed by consumer culture and now i get bored of hearing a track two weeks before it comes out. The more music is rammed down your throat the more worthless it becomes.. but still we consume consume consume...

A lot of the world's problems are caused by over-consumption. So what do we do to counter these problems? We release charity records and sell rubber wristbands - consumer items. We just make the problem worse!

Rock'n'roll died with Live Aid.. Music is a consumer item.. Its run its course... good riddance...

I will be observing No Music Day by: Not intentionally listening to any music and doing my best to avoid listening to any music unitentionally.

Oliver Fitzgerald
15/10/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: i hate the ice cream man

I will be observing No Music Day by: smashing the ice cream van's speakers

dim
15/10/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: God yes, it fills me with misery to think that right here, sitting here, i coudl get almost any song on earth with a few clicks.

I will be observing No Music Day by: Getting John at RNG to turn off the crappy electro he plays alll day long.

jake
15/10/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: Contrary to one of the statements in the 2006 Guardian article which led me here, it is *not* true that "Almost every piece of recorded music since recorded music began 110 years ago is just a click away." I know what it's like to suddenly have nothing to listen to -- all vinyl, CDs, MP3s gone, not necessarily replaceable, and the radio/TV worse than useless.

I will be observing No Music Day by: 1) Thinking about all the music I've lost, and all the recordings I no longer have access to

2) Thinking about how my access to music has gone full circle -- from hearing about new music from friends, to a brief puff of mass media, to hearing about it from friends with a bit of Googling on the side

Kat
15/10/2006

I will be observing No Music Day by: Listening to whatever i want to listen to because i can have a no music day anyday of the year and i dont have to make a fucking campaign

florence
15/10/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: You people are pretentious and retarded. Music is a beautiful, wonderful thing. I can't believe one of you jerks actually used the phrase 'Cageian.' Get laid. Seriously.

I will be observing No Music Day by: I'm not going to do this.

Jack Fuller
15/10/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: my ipod is in my car, my ipod is in my pocket, my ipod is on the train, i can't listen to music at the moment without feeling like there is something else i want to listen to at that very same moment - so i feel totally distanced from the track that I AM listening to ... my lust distract me from my love and it disgusts me - skipping through the tracks, shuffle, shuffle, skip ... theres something of the compulsive wanker about it ... grubby ... shuffle, skip, shuffle, shuffle, skip ... admit it ... 'he's a dirty old man' as the three degrees might have it, anyway on 21st Nov these ears are getting washed

I will be observing No Music Day by: n o m u s i c = ear plugs and taking a brick to the radio in our office

areariskassesment
15/10/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: we need to follow the Taliban so that all days are no music days.

I will be observing No Music Day by: by flying to Afghanistan where in the Taliban communities everyday is a no music day.

Jon Appleton
15/10/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: I'm totally jaded with the present climate of unoriginal drivel played on any medium you care to mention.

It can all fuck off for the day.

I will be observing No Music Day by: Loudly assailing vacuous fashion victims.

Lee Jenkins
15/10/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: I am 33.

Under the age of 30 or so, music can be ecstatic; a wonderful, spiritual, life-changing, consciousness-exanding, sexy, thrilling journey into the unknown.

After that, it's just pleasant background noise.

I will be mourning the loss.

I will be observing No Music Day by: Leaving my headphones at home.

Theophile Escargot
15/10/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: I pretty much listen to the same old stuff and it's a road to nowhere.

I will be observing No Music Day by: not rocking out in the car on my drive to or from work.

Rusty
15/10/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: The sheer fun of it all.

I will be observing No Music Day by: Going out and shooting pop musicians and people listening with headphones on the train?

Nujtter
15/10/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: You can't think clearly when music is distracting you. It is great for putting you in an altered state while dancing or love-making but during other activities it just diverts your attention, making you less intelligent.

I will be observing No Music Day by: Leaving the radio and the computer speakers off all day.

Marshall
15/10/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: I don't want to.

I will be observing No Music Day by: Playing John Cage's 4'33" and putting it on repeat.

David
15/10/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: I've downloaded so much of the stuff to fill my hard drive several times over, but I don't have time to listen to it. And what I do listen to is simply there while I'm doing something else - usually driving or surfing the web.

Have I forgotten how to listen with attention?

I will be observing No Music Day by: Not listening to music: as far as I can - but as soon as I turn on the TV, there will be theme music, advertising jingles, soundtracks etc. So I guess it means no TV/DVDs either.

Professor
15/10/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: FUCK YOU! NO FUCKING WAY AM I FOLLOWING THIS PILE OF BULLSHIT YOU RETARD DONKEY SUCKERS

I will be observing No Music Day by: FUCK YOU! I WONT OBSERVE IT YOU SHOWER OF BASTARDS

ste
15/10/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: Because I love music.

Absence! Heart grows fonder.

I will be observing No Music Day by: ...not listening to music?

Ken Fallon
15/10/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: I look at the thousands of CDs I have and realise that I don't want to listen to any of them

I will be observing No Music Day by: reading. Turning off the radio/stereo/television and drinking tea

Chris
15/10/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: Society has become insular and inreoverted, no one dares speak to one another. Nobody communicates other than by fatuous blog comments and throwaway messengers.

When the people don't bond, the powers that be can do as they please, this is a BAD THING.

I love music, I really do, but, like a great deal of modern life, it has become an instant satisfaction disposable commodity.

I will be observing No Music Day by: Not using Winamp, taking the memory card out of my PDA, and, as goes without saying not turning on MTV. In fact, as almost all televison has music attached, it will have to be a no TV day as well.

I shall read a very good book.

Mavis Cruet
15/10/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: my other half is reading the sunday papers and told me to look at this website and put in his answers - which were rubbish. My response on the other hand is witty, urbane and very post ironic.

(My partner has just said it can't be very post ironic - but it is! He says he invented the term but that is nonsense.)

I will be observing No Music Day by: playing all my cds in alphabetical order with the sound down.

I shall also have the radio on with no sound.

clazzamac
15/10/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: I can.

I will be observing No Music Day by: not listening to music.

joe cotter
15/10/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: I LIKE TO OBSERVE

I will be observing No Music Day by: OBSERVING

paul holmes
15/10/2006

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I will be observing No Music Day by: i think that this is stupid and should be abolished music is great and the guy whi created this web site must have allot of time on his hands to make a web page about non music day!

hugo drummond>
15/10/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: Whilst music does not have to exist as a commercial experience/product, it is one of the key economic sectors in the UK. Try as I might to resist contributing to this , as a producer and as a consumer, music remains the hook that keeps me coming back to engage in a system I am otherwise entirely sceptical of. I dont drive, I dont own a house, I have little savings etc. But music provides a way of rationalising my contuined contribution to UK Plc.

By silencing the desire for music on 21.11, I will be reflecting on why I continue to organise my existence in this pervese manner.

I will be observing No Music Day by: Attempting to control the extent to which one can choose to avoid listening to music. I say choose as this is not something an individual has control over. Car Stereos, neighbours, shopping centres, buses,lifts etc will no doubt undermine my purification during no music day.

agreenman
15/10/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: Music is a filthy whore

I will be observing No Music Day by: staying at an isolated coastal shack and listening to the sounds of the sea

Andrew
15/10/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: It's a good way of realising how much it means to us. In fact, there may be silence in the world, no music but our memories of music would cause us to just play tunes in our head. We truly cannot escape music.

I will be observing No Music Day by: Sitting down and seeing how long it takes me to give into the temptation of listening to music. Music is a drug so one day without it and i would get withdrawel effects.

Catherine
16/10/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: I believe you can have too much of a good thing.

I will be observing No Music Day by: Remembering the period 1979-1983.

Colin
16/10/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: Music in many forms in bombarded into our brains from all angles, therefore I think we need to appreciate the fact that we still have a choice....for one day we will appreciate what we have and value this greatly, hopefully understanding that most of today's music in rubbish. either that or I read it in the observer and it sounded like a great idea... ;-)

I will be observing No Music Day by: trying to shut out and avoid all of the non-direct input that we do no realise that comes into contact with our brains day in day out...just for once it would be nice to hear the silence and let our minds relax from the constant input, to be fresh, to rejuvinate to empty ones mind and think that if this was all of the time then it would be hell. Music can wait for one day....the mind will be ours onceMore!

graemephillips
16/10/2006