When I go to a gig and I hear a song that I really like, a song that hits home to me or hits an emotional nerve, if I could ever recreate that for someone, that would be the ultimate goal.
Interpretation
The quote expresses the desire to create music that resonates deeply with others, just as certain songs resonate with the listener.
Vance Joy reflects on the profound impact that music can have on individuals, particularly how certain songs can evoke strong emotions and connect with personal experiences. His ultimate aspiration as an artist is to replicate that emotional connection for others through his own music, aiming to touch hearts and evoke feelings in the same way that certain songs have done for him.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a speech at a music festival to inspire artists.
In hindsight, if I could go back in time and relay a message to my younger self, I would tell him to work on his time keeping, and that the job of a drummer is not to be the one that gets noticed the most on stage, or to be the fastest, or the loudest. Above all, it is to be the timekeeper.
When I go to the Gate, I'll play a duet with Gabriel. Yeah, we'll play 'Sleepy Time Down South' and 'Hello, Dolly!.' Then he can blow a couple that he's been playing up there all the time.
It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.
People don't want rap to be anything other than it is. But genres expand. My contributions, no matter how they sound, will always be rap, because they'll always be black.
The future of rock belongs to women.
In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.
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