Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me.
Interpretation
Music conveys deep meanings that often transcend understanding.
Jordan Peterson highlights the enigmatic nature of music and its ability to convey intrinsic meanings that resonate on a personal level. Despite our attempts to analyze and comprehend music, it often retains a mysterious quality that evokes profound emotional responses, suggesting that the essence of music is complex and may never be fully understood.
In practice
In a discussion about the impact of art on culture.
Part of the reason there's an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you're in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let's say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.
I don't tell people, 'You're okay the way that you are.' That's not the right story. The right story is, 'You're way less than you could be.'
Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.
If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it.
Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.
I'm interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification.
The person whose work introduced me to the craft was Lorraine Hansberry. The person who taught me to love the craft was Tennessee Williams. The person who really taught me the power of the craft was August Wilson, and the person who taught me the political heft of the craft was Arthur Miller.
I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
Music is a gift and a burden I've had since I can remember who I was.
Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.
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