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UNREAD HEARTACHE I Until you feel it, until the ache makes its way beneath your skin and sinks in, grows there, thrives there, you will never understand. I pray, down to my bones, you never do.
“Oscar Wilde said that some things are too important to be taken seriously. Art is one of those things. Setting the bar low, especially to get started, frees you to play, explore, and test without attachment to results.”
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
“All that matters is that you are making something you love, to the best of your ability, here and now.”
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
“Matthew Ismael Ruiz: ...There might be people to this day who think In Reverie is important, but to me it was important in understanding the way music fandom works. I felt like they had a responsibility to not be awful because they were my favorite band, they were some of my friends' favorite band. Like, I can't even go to your show, because you'll play most of this new record, and I'll get maybe three or four songs that I actually like. This sucks.
But the more distance you put from that, you realize, how can you expect a band to stay the same way they were when they were fifteen, sixteen? Or twenty? Or twenty-three, twenty-five?”
― Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo’s Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008
But the more distance you put from that, you realize, how can you expect a band to stay the same way they were when they were fifteen, sixteen? Or twenty? Or twenty-three, twenty-five?”
― Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo’s Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008
“As artists, we seek to restore our childlike perception: a more innocent state of wonder and appreciation not tethered to utility or survival.”
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
“Jim Adkins: ...There was a girl who wrote us, explaining how she felt like an outsider at her school because the punk rock kids wouldn't accept her, even though she liked us and a lot of the really obscure bands we toured with. And I just thought 'It's not worth your time to trip on this. Punk rock is and should be inclusive. That's the one thing I know. No matter what your definition of punk is, everyone would say that it's inclusive, it welcomes outsiders. Freak flags welcome. Wave 'em around. These chicks don't get it at all, don't waste your time trying to get their approval.' That's where the main idea for the lyrics to 'The Middle' came from.”
― Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo’s Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008
― Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo’s Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008
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