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.
Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.
I don't want the viewer to be able to peel away the layers of my painting like the layers of an onion and find that all the blues are on the same level.
The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to Earth, from Earth to heaven; and as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet's pen turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name; such tricks hath strong imagination.
And for the first time in hundreds of years, the night came alive with the music of dragons.
I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
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