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 trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain.
Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
I can't help other people's frustrations. I don't owe people anything. If people would like to come to my concerts, I'd love them to come. And if they like the music that I make, I love that, too. But I do not make music for other people. I make it to please myself.
Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint it, so it's almost like automatic writing. A writer, on the other hand, can't help but know what he's going to write, because the activity demands a degree of premeditation.
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