Vonnegut and Music

I came across a Ms. Sarah Laurel. She is described as "a harm-reduction professional."

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[T]he reasons for the failure of the New Deal are clear. The Depression endured because the means by which America’s leaders, President Herbert Hoover and then, especially, President Roosevelt, chose to cure it: top-down federal intervention.---Shlaes, a serious academic

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Vonnegut and Music

 Everyone knows that Kurt Vonnegut loved music. Here’s how it appears in A Man Without a Country:

No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious and charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.

If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:

THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED

FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD

WAS MUSIC.

He goes on to say that he likes “Strauss and Mozart and all that” but what he really loves is “that specific remedy for the worldwide epidemic of depression” also known as the blues.  

In a 1991 interview with Hustler, believe it or not, Vonnegut, was asked about his musical tastes. “We’ll start from the back and work forward,” Vonnegut said. “I hate rap. The Beatles have made a substantial contribution. Bob Dylan, however, is the worst poet alive. He can maybe get one good line in a song, and the rest is gibberish.”--redone from Temple in The Hub