Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.
Interpretation
Great music possesses a cinematic quality of its own, and it's vital to respect its integrity while finding a fitting context for it.
In this quote, Cameron Crowe expresses the idea that music can evoke imagery and emotions akin to a film. As listeners and fans, the challenge lies in appreciating the music's inherent power and essence without altering or diminishing it, while also finding the right place and manner to present it.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of music in film.
Sometimes, being a feminist artist, there are times where I'm in a position where I just want to feel like I'm saying all the right things politically, or I feel like I have to mention my own project over other people's projects. But I don't do that anymore. I just want to be off the cuff and honest.
I'm a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
Every viewer who ever turned on 'Doctor Who' has taken him into his heart. He belongs to all of us.
I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.
I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.
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