Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me.
Interpretation
Music conveys deep meanings that often transcend understanding.
Jordan Peterson highlights the enigmatic nature of music and its ability to convey intrinsic meanings that resonate on a personal level. Despite our attempts to analyze and comprehend music, it often retains a mysterious quality that evokes profound emotional responses, suggesting that the essence of music is complex and may never be fully understood.
In practice
In a discussion about the impact of art on culture.
Part of the reason there's an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you're in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let's say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.
I don't tell people, 'You're okay the way that you are.' That's not the right story. The right story is, 'You're way less than you could be.'
Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.
If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it.
Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.
I'm interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification.
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'd rather hold one note for an hour and modulate it so that it means something than play 3,000 notes in 15 seconds.
I have no time to explain now. It is a thrilling tale, I wish to do it justice.
You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life
To make great movies, there is an element of risk. You have to say, 'Well, I am going to make this film, and it is not really a sure thing.'
To me, the best zombie movies aren’t the splatter fests of gore and violence with goofy characters and tongue in cheek antics. Good zombie movies show us how messed up we are, they make us question our station in society… and our society’s station in the world. They show us gore and violence and all that cool stuff too… but there’s always an undercurrent of social commentary and thoughtfulness.
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