We don't make music, it makes us
Interpretation
Music is a powerful force that shapes our identity and experiences.
This quote suggests that music is not merely a creation of artists but rather an entity that influences and molds the people who engage with it. It implies that music has a profound effect on our emotions, thoughts, and actions, acting almost as a living force that resonates with our inner selves.
In practice
In a discussion about the impact of music on culture or personal growth.
Forces that you might think are utterly unrelated to creativity can have a big impact. Technology, obviously, but environment, too. Even financial structures can affect the actual content of a song. The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.
When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke.
I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not going to get too many surprises if you only focus on the stuff that fits inside the box that you know.
You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.
Real sadness is such an all-encompassing intense thing that it takes you out of your humdrum existence. If you can still function, you want to show it while it's peaking. So when people tell you to cheer up, it's not always the best thing.
I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.
I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record.
In Irenaβs head the alcohol plays a double role: it frees her fantasy, encourages her boldness, makes her sensual, and at the same time it dims her memory. She makes love wildly, lasciviously, and at the same time the curtain of oblivion wraps her lewdness in an all-concealing darkness. As if a poet were writing his greatest poem with ink that instantly disappears.
The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
Hollywood wants to own everything. I don't want to own anything. I don't want people just to make content, I want to empower and teach them to create content they own that they can exploit in any medium.
When I'm dying, I want to think I did what I felt was best for the words I was writing. This may mean, at any time, that I won't be publishable anymore.
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