When something really hits me, it makes me want to either jump off something really high or lie down and be buried. I want people to get hit and caught by my music.
Interpretation
This quote expresses the deep emotional impact of music and the desire for listeners to feel profoundly moved by it.
Florence Welch articulates the intense emotional connection she has with music, suggesting that its powerful effect can provoke extreme reactions such as exhilaration or a desire for solace. She yearns for her audience to experience a similarly deep and impactful encounter with her music, highlighting the transformative power of art in human emotions.
In practice
During a presentation about the power of art in life, I shared this quote to illustrate how deeply music can resonate with people.
I love performing outside because it's as if the heavens are open and the elements become part of the stage show as well - you know, the wind and the rain and the thunder. It's almost as if there's a sense of invocation in performance.
I was a heavy heart to carry_x000D_ My beloved was weighed down_x000D_ My arms around his neck_x000D_ My fingers laced to crown._x000D_ I was a heavy heart to carry_x000D_ My feet dragged across ground_x000D_ And he took me to the river_x000D_ Where he slowly let me drown_x000D_ My love has concrete feet_x000D_ My love's an iron ball_x000D_ Wrapped around your ankles _x000D_ Over the waterfall
I don't want your future,_x000D_ I don't need your past._x000D_ One bright moment_x000D_ Is all I ask.
My visual landscape as a child was the inside of a lot of these old churches. And the Baroque drama of the things was what I was first engaging with artwise. I'm much more attracted to the aesthetic of religious iconography than the actual religious side. The passion and the blood and the violence and the gaudy side of it I find really fascinating.
Music is my way out. I keep things locked up and never say anything. I guess in order to say something to one person, I have to sing it to a couple of thousand. It doesn't make for healthy relationships.
The stage is a place where I can be wholly myself. Even though you're in front of people almost to be judged, it is a place without judgement.
Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
I have the feeling that a lot of poets writing now are - they sort of tap dance through it.
The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.
The dancer of the future will be one whose body & soul have grown so harmoniously together that the natural language of the soul will have become the movement of the body.
I don't remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated and subversive I felt as a result.
I never, ever want to apologize for a film. If it's bad I'll say it's my fault. And that's what I can say so far in all the films that I've done, that if you don't like it, it's entirely my fault.
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