The things that affect you most deeply - the things that will destroy you if you don't sing about them - are the things that you often end up singing about. It's really just about saying those things that everybody thinks but no one will say and making a connection by uncovering these diamonds that are inside of all of us that no one wants to tell each other about.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of expressing deep emotions and thoughts through art, specifically music.
Wayne Coyne highlights that the most profound experiences and feelings, which can be harmful if suppressed, often find their voice through artistic expression. By addressing these unspoken truths, artists can create connections with others, uncovering the shared vulnerabilities that unite people on a deeper level.
In practice
A musician might use this quote during a concert to inspire the audience to embrace their emotions.
The main thing that I learned from editing is that most people, when they're making a film, they start too early into the story. They will try to set up the characters, they will try to establish things before the plot actually starts.
He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life . . . Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end . . . For art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.
I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island in Lough Gill, and when walking through Fleet Street very homesick I heard a little tinkle of water and saw a fountain in a shop window which balanced a little ball upon its jet, and began to remember lake water. From the sudden remembrance came my poem Innisfree.
Entertainment and art are not isolated
Art is an expression of joy and awe. It is not an attempt to share one's virtues and accomplishments with the audience, but an act of selfless spirit.
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