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.
Design is the patterning and planning of any act toward a desired, foreseeable end... any attempt to separate design, to make it a thing-by-itself works, counter to the fact that design is the primary underlying matrix of life.
I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.
Reading a poem in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil.
Never play a thing the same way twice.
The fairy poet takes a sheet Of moonbeam, silver white; His ink is dew from daisies sweet, His pen a point of light.
The bartenders are the regular band of Jack, and the heavenly drummer who looks up to the sky with blue eyes, with a beard, is wailing beer-caps of bottles and jamming on the cash register and everything is going to the beat - It's the beat generation, its bΓ©at, it's the beat to keep, it's the beat of the heart, it's being beat and down in the world and like oldtime lowdown.
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