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.
I'm always aware of writing around things I can't do, and I've come to think that that's actually what 'style' is - an avoidance of your deficiencies.
If you want to be a writer, write a little bit every day. Pay attention to the world around you. Stories are hiding, waiting everywhere. You just have to open your eyes and your heart.
I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
I always say it takes three weeks to know a character and three months to own it. And I think that's probably true of every theater artist. If you really want to see a performance of the show, wait three months.
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.
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