A woman artist could be one of those intuitive geniuses [who] have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision and experience.
Alfred StieglitzRead
Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.
Interpretation
Music is naturally appealing to young people, encouraging their creativity and dreams.
The quote by Isaac Hayes emphasizes the intrinsic joy that music brings to young people, comparing their affinity for it to fish thriving in water. It suggests that music not only provides fun but also serves as a catalyst for their imagination and aspirations, opening up a world of possibilities for their future.
In practice
During a speech at a music festival, to highlight the importance of music in youth culture.
A woman artist could be one of those intuitive geniuses [who] have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision and experience.
She could walk through a lightning storm without being touched; grab a bolt of lightning in the palm of her hand; use the heat of lightning to start the kindling going under her medicine pot. She turned the moon into salve, the stars into swaddling cloth, and healed the wounds of every creature walking up on two or down on four.
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.
A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out.
I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal.
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