The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music.
Interpretation
Corporations often prioritize profit over artistic values, ignoring the importance of art and music.
In this quote, Joni Mitchell expresses concern over the way corporations operate, highlighting that their considerations are primarily focused on financial gain rather than the cultural significance of art and music. She suggests that in the current climate, the intrinsic value of creative expressions is overlooked, emphasizing a disconnect between corporate interests and artistic endeavors.
In practice
Using this quote during a discussion on the impact of corporate interests on creative industries.
There's a man who's been out sailing In a decade full of dreams And he takes her to a schooner And he treats her like a queen Bearing beads from California With their amber stones and green He has called her from the harbor He has kissed her with his freedom He has heard her off to starboard In the breaking and the breathing Of the water weeds While she was busy being free
Unlike some of my peers, I haven't really hit a writer's block. When I hit a block I just paint, which is an old crop rotation trick.
This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms.
You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart.
I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.
What I do is unusual: chordal movements that have never been used before, changing keys and modalities mid-song.
I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job
Music is storming, driving, relentless, devotional, slinky, subtle, heartbreakingly-beautiful sounds that, lyrically, switch from the cynical to the sanguine, the defeated to the defiant, dealing in love, war, beauty, children, romance, rejection, Pethedine, poetry, panties, God, Auden, Johnny Cash, cold potatoes, too-much-money, not enough money, writerβs block, flowers, animals and more flowers. But maybe Iβm projecting here.
I'd like to think I am taking people on a journey; I am not just entertaining people, but giving them something to think about when they leave.
When it all comes together, a creative life has the nourishing power we normally associate with food, love and faith.
There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.
There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.
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