Someone said to me, early on in film school... if you can photograph the human face you can photograph anything, because that is the most difficult and most interesting thing to photograph.
Roger DeakinsRead
We live in an age of music for people who don't like music. The record industry discovered some time ago that there aren't that many people who actually like music. For a lot of people, music's annoying, or at the very least they don't need it. They discovered if they could sell music to a lot of those people, they could sell a lot more records.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote critiques the commercial music industry’s focus on profit over artistic value.
T Bone Burnett highlights a troubling reality in the music industry where the emphasis has shifted from creating music for genuine appreciation to capitalizing on a larger, indifferent audience. He suggests that many people consume music not out of love for it, but rather as a background noise or commodity, which reflects a deeper disconnect between art and its appreciation in contemporary culture.
Themes
MusicIndustryAppreciationArtProfit
In practice
Example use cases
In a discussion about the impact of modern music on culture, one might refer to this quote to emphasize the shift in musical values.
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