I really do live for the future, because when I'm eating a box of candy, I can't wait to taste the last piece.
Andy WarholRead
There are beautiful sounds in rock. Very lazy, dreamlike noises. You can forget about the lyrics in most songs. Just dig the noise, and you've got your sound...We're musical primitives.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the value of music beyond its lyrics, highlighting the beauty in sound itself.
Andy Warhol's quote celebrates the intrinsic beauty of music, particularly rock, characterized by its captivating sounds that evoke a dreamlike state. He suggests that listeners should focus on the musical experience rather than the lyrics, emphasizing a primal connection to music that transcends words and encourages pure enjoyment of auditory textures.
In practice
During a music festival, I shared this quote to highlight the essence of enjoying music.
I really do live for the future, because when I'm eating a box of candy, I can't wait to taste the last piece.
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art
I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.
I like to be the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space. But usually being the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space is worth it, because something funny always happens.
I hate this life of the fashionable world, always ordered, measured, ruled, like our music-paper. What I have always wished for, desired, and coveted, is the life of an artist, free and independent, relying only on my own resources, and accountable only to myself.
I think what gets a poem going is an initiating line. Sometimes a first line will occur, and it goes nowhere; but other times - and this, I think, is a sense you develop - I can tell that the line wants to continue.
What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!
The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.
I was obsessed with the idea that no two sounds on 'Oxygene' should ever be exactly the same. I wanted a heartbeat feel, something human.
[...] I've come to the conclusion that the artist can not justify life or come up with a cogent reason as to why life is meaningful, but the artist can provide you with a cold glass of water on a hot day.
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