“By the early 70s, popular music had more or less forfeited its capacity to promote social movements. From then on its different varieties would be associated with defining lifestyle niches, consumer habits, and subcultural affiliations … Welcome to dystopia, a counterfeit heaven where music plays all the time.”—Nikil Saval, “Wall of Sound” (Slate)
“Just as many respondents expressed regret for something they had done as those who felt regret for something they had not done. However, people whose regrets involved something they did not do … were more likely to hold on to the regret over time.”—Tara Parker Pope, “What’s Your Biggest Regret?” (NY Times)