The reason I play music is to touch people - for selfish reasons, as well. It feels good to make someone else feel something, whether it's a kiss, a painting, good idea or it's a song.
Interpretation
Music is a way to emotionally connect with others, fulfilling both the artist's and the listener's desires.
In this quote, Dave Matthews expresses the dual purpose of creating music: the desire to connect emotionally with others and the personal satisfaction that comes from evoking feelings through art. He acknowledges that while the act may seem selfless in its intent to move others, there is also an inherent selfish joy in being the catalyst for those emotions.
In practice
Sharing this quote during a music therapy session to highlight the emotional power of music.
Nothing is here to stay_x000D_ _x000D_ Everything has to begin and end_x000D_ _x000D_ A ship in a bottle won't sail_x000D_ _x000D_ All we can do is dream that the wind will blow us across the water_x000D_ _x000D_ A ship in a bottle set sail
The brightest star on a cloudless night_x000D_ _x000D_ Some kind of miracle, almost empty sky..._x000D_ _x000D_ Just as the bite of the blade wakes the absent mind_x000D_ _x000D_ There's time to dream and there's time to open your eyes
I can't believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well. I can't believe that we would lie in our graves dreaming of things that we might have been.
Tomorrow is no place to place your better days.
It starts with the writer-it's a familiar dictum, but somehow it keeps getting forgotten along the way. No film-maker, irrespective of his electronic bag of tricks, can ever afford to forget his commitment to the written word.
Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.
I'm not sure I would have ever started to draw, let alone write, if my childhood hadn't been so happy. It was a mixture of comfort and adventure. An excellent mixture!
Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.
Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals.
When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my grandparents' boarding house in Waukegan, Illinois. Those were the years when Hugo Gernsback was publishing 'Amazing Stories,' with vivid, appallingly imaginative cover paintings that fed my hungry imagination.
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