You know how a lot of people say, 'I lose myself in music,' or 'I like to escape,' but I want my music to be more of an awakening. I want it to make people to be aware of life; I don't want my music to be a distraction. I want to light a path.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the transformative power of music, aiming to inspire awareness rather than serve as mere escapism.
Jhene Aiko articulates her desire for music to transcend simple entertainment; instead, she seeks to create a profound impact that encourages listeners to engage with life deeply. By portraying music as a medium for awakening and enlightenment, she highlights its potential to illuminate paths for self-discovery and awareness, ultimately guiding individuals towards a more conscious existence.
In practice
During a motivational speech about self-discovery, you can use this quote to illustrate how music can inspire personal awareness.
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.
Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.
Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories it is something organic, something that grows out of the material, and this being the case, it is different for every story of any account that has ever been written.
I just feel that 'The Color Purple,' which was my 10th book, was a true gift from my ancestors.
The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.
The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that 'art' was what men did in a European tradition and 'crafts' were what women and natives did. But it's actually all the same.
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