"The secret ingredient in her music was silence. One of my favorite canonical experiences I can't I just, I can't does not have an entry for our deity, Roberta Flack, our priestess of quiet. This is what the kids would call triggering. Triggering! I'm Wesley Morris, and this is Cannonball Today.' Strumming my pain with his fingers. That was bad."
"I have a kind of practice around this time of year of paying my respects to the people in my life who won't be coming with us into the following year. Some of those people I knew. Some of those people did work that I knew. And part of paying my respects to those people, the artists I love, part of mourning them is to celebrate what they made."
Roberta Flack's music places silence at the center, using restraint and quiet to create intimacy, tension, and emotional depth. Her vocal and musical pauses function like a priestly stillness that amplifies lyrical meaning and sensuality. An end-of-year practice involves paying respects to departed cultural figures by celebrating the work they left behind, framing celebration as a form of mourning. Several cultural giants across disciplines—architecture, film, and acting—offer rich material for focused appreciation, including Frank Gehry, David Lynch, Diane Keaton, Rob Reiner, and Gene Hackman. Silence emerges as the defining, multi-dimensional element that makes Flack's performances uniquely powerful.
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