I can't say what people use the experience of listening to songs for, but I would never tell somebody what it is supposed to mean. That defeats the purpose of making it. Hopefully, whoever connects with it connects with it in their own way, and it can mean whatever it is supposed to mean to them.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the personal interpretation of music and art.
Mark Lanegan believes that the experience of listening to songs is deeply personal and subjective. He suggests that the meaning derived from music should not be dictated by the creator, as each listener may connect with the work in their unique way. This perspective highlights the importance of individual interpretation in experiencing art, allowing for a diverse range of meanings based on personal feelings and experiences.
In practice
During a speech about the power of music at a conference.
Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long years. And for this reason, some old things are lovely warm still with the life of forgotten men who made them.
Making words rhyme for a living is one of the great joys of my life... That's a superpower I've been very conscious of developing. I started at the same level as everybody else, and then I just listened to more music and talked to myself until it was an actual superpower I could pull out on special occasions.
Clever of me to become a critic. We critics scrutinize and show off to a higher end. For a greater good. Our manners, our tastes, our declarations are welcomed. Superior for life. Except when we're not. Except when we're dismissed or denounced as envious or petty, as derivatives and dependents by nature. Second class for life.
I feel as though I've gotten to a point where I don't really want to set a book in any real place ever again.
I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.
Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.
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