How we experience memory sometimes, it's not linear. We're not telling the stories to ourselves. We know the story; we're just seeing it in flashes overlaid.
Interpretation
Memory is a complex and non-linear experience that can come in fragments rather than a continuous narrative.
Frank Ocean's quote reflects on the nature of memory, suggesting that our recollections are not always experienced as straightforward stories. Instead, memories can come to us in disjointed flashes, creating a tapestry of experiences that are layered and overlapping, rather than sequentially aligned. This insight emphasizes the subjective and intricate way we remember our past, highlighting the emotional resonance of individual moments.
In practice
In a discussion about how our past shapes our present, one might say, 'As Frank Ocean noted, our memories aren't just linear narratives but come in vivid flashes.'
Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time.
It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story, and all kinds of sonic goodness - sonic goodies.
I think we all change each other's paths. I don't know which law idea that is in physics, but I don't think any of us can live without affecting one another.
Work hard in silence, let success be your noise.
We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.
Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.
What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
The cause of war is preparation for war.
One hurries through, even though there's time; the past, the continent, is behind; the future is the glowing mouth in the side of the ship; the dim, turbulent alley is too confusedly the present.
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
Human security recognizes the importance of individuals and that the key to ensuring growth in developing countries is to foster individual talent and abilities, build self-reliance, and put people in a position to make a broader contribution to society. Growth must be inclusive, and no one must be left behind.
People with the strongest and healthiest sense of calling are not obsessed with their calling. They are preoccupied with the Caller.
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