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.
You find that you have to do many things, more than just lift up the camera and shoot, and so you get involved in it in a very physical way. You may find that the picture you want to do can only be made from a certain place, and you're not there, so you have to physically go there. And that participation may spur you on to work harder on the thing, . . . because in the physical change of position you start seeing a whole different relationship.
Alimony is the curse of the writing class.
The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it. As for myself, I'm not really sure who I am. I change every day.
Drawing takes time. A line has time in it
To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when you're sitting in a room, writing songs, it's a completely different process. It's a completely different place. It's a creative place, a musical place. It has nothing to do with who likes what.
The writer is the visionary of his people... He anticipates, he warns.
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