I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.
Alanis MorissetteRead
Music helps you find the truths you must bring into the rest of your life.
Interpretation
Music can provide insights and truths that guide our lives.
This quote by Alanis Morissette suggests that music serves as a medium through which individuals can explore and discover personal truths. It implies that the emotional and reflective nature of music has the power to influence the way we perceive and navigate our everyday lives, prompting us to integrate these insights into various aspects of our existence.
In practice
During a motivational speech to highlight the role of art in personal growth.
I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.
My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later. When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life.
To me the biggest irony of this lifetime that I'm living is that for someone who thrives in the public eye in the creative ways that I do, I actually don't enjoy being in the public eye.
I'll be writing songs till I die. There's just no question.
My greatest achievement is being able to write records that are real snapshots of what's going on in my life. I won't repeat myself for the sake of commerce, or to please other people.
When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.
There's nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won't ring from room service; your mother won't be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, you're dead.
Chic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn't.
Whenever I make music, it reflects where I'm at mentally.
My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I'm always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music.
Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of a great empire.
The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with base notes, or dark lake with the treble.
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