I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.
Interpretation
Rebellion loses its authenticity when commodified by corporations.
David Byrne's quote critiques the commercialization of rebellion, suggesting that when countercultural movements are packaged and sold by major corporations, their authenticity and significance can diminish. He implies that true rebellion stems from genuine discontent and should not be co-opted for profit.
In practice
Using this quote in a discussion about consumer culture and authenticity at a public speaking event.
Forces that you might think are utterly unrelated to creativity can have a big impact. Technology, obviously, but environment, too. Even financial structures can affect the actual content of a song. The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.
When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke.
I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not going to get too many surprises if you only focus on the stuff that fits inside the box that you know.
You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.
Real sadness is such an all-encompassing intense thing that it takes you out of your humdrum existence. If you can still function, you want to show it while it's peaking. So when people tell you to cheer up, it's not always the best thing.
We don't make music, it makes us
The reader knows the writer better than he knows himself; but the writer's physical presence is light from a star that has moved on.
England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.
I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.
The desert could not be claimed or owned β it was a piece of cloth carried by winds, never held down by stones, and given a hundred shifting names before Canterbury existed, long before battles and treaties quilted Europe and the East ... All of us, even those with European homes and children in the distance, wished to remove the clothing of our countries. It was a place of faith. We disappeared into landscape.
There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings.
Since consciousness is the basis of all reality, any shift in consciousness changes every aspect of our reality. Reality is created by consciousness differentiating into cognition, moods, emotions, perceptions, behavior, speech, social interactions, environment, interaction with the forces of nature, and biology. As consciousness evolves, these different aspects of consciousness also change.
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