Quotes by Eyvind Kang - Page 1

When you sit with people and you can hear what they're hearing, that's quite interesting.
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Hearing
Interesting
People
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Learning how to listen to others and how to listen to your own thoughts is the ultimate process.
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Process
Ultimate
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Water is the most purifying element. It's always involved in baptisms, healings, that kind of work.
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Baptism
Healing
Water
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I don't like to treat words and sounds like objects. You have to penetrate deeply into their meaning.
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Penetrate
Sound
Treats
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I love the pleasure of finding the same truth in two different places. It has a lot to do with a soul.
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Different
Soul
Two
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I believe that music should be grown on trees, to be plucked like a fruit without the extravagance of harvest.
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Believe
Extravagance
Tree
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Even if you're a genius and you invent your own language, it doesn't become a language until there are people using it.
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Genius
Language
People
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Working with the Latin language is pretty powerful. Working with a language that is not spoken vernacularly is intense.
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Language
Latin
Powerful
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There is no guiding principle, because the work that is created in collaborations should be created from its own principles.
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Collaboration
Guiding Principles
Principles
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There is some music that's truly dark, in that it's dark in terms of hopeless. But then again, the act of hope is just making the work of art.
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Art
Dark
Hopeless
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What happens in our consciousness and minds and bodies is also happening on earth. The more we pollute the earth, for example, the sicker we are.
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Body
Example
Mind
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Who approaches collaboration with agenda in terms of content? The agenda is only in terms of process, which is generosity, listening, careful thinking.
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Generosity
Listening
Thinking
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The most appealing part is the feeling of learning something true - the pleasure of a truth. For me, that's mostly found in philosophical literature at the moment.
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Feelings
Literature
Philosophical
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I woke up and was walking on a mountain, and I thought, "What's the worst thing that humans could do to the planet? Make it uninhabitable for humans and kill wildlife."
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Mountain
Planets
Wildlife
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I love the appropriateness of making a dogmatic statement. I support that, but that is a different level of the individual consciousness than was the source of our music.
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Different
Levels
Support
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All these emotions are coming from one thing - sound. It's not coming from your experiences in life, your childhood. It's related to those things, but it's being triggered by the sound.
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Childhood
Emotion
Sound
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Our individual consciousness is actually part of a larger system. There are many levels of consciousness, and the creativity used in composing the music comes from another level that is not purely personal.
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Consciousness
Creativity
Levels
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Musicians always want to sacrifice our creativity to get involved in environmental issues or political activism of some sort - to reduce it to something more populist in terms of sing-alongs or guitar songs with a message.
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Creativity
Sacrifice
Song
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I think the question of actually relating emotion to music is totally interesting. I believe that it is really important on some level, but it's also important not to impose your own emotions on some music that has its own emotions.
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Believe
Interesting
Thinking
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Listening is active. It's like vision. It's like the idea of the eye projecting light, which I've heard is what children and infants say when they're asked to explain vision - that the eye projects light, rather than just receives it.
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Children
Eye
Light
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In a way, composing on the melodic level is an expression of a melodic truth, almost like a geometric truth. If it has clarity, other people will recognize it. There's no way of isolating it in a gallery on a white wall and saying, "This is a work of art. This is a mathematical proof."
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Art
Expression
Wall
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When you're listening to music, you listen to it with a friend one day and it sounds one way. You listen to it with another friend the next day, and it sounds a little different. Sometimes the greatest pleasure of listening is not the music that you're listening to; it's the person that you're listening to it with.
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Listening
Next Day
One Day
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In a way, all recorded music is reduced to the same level, no matter what it is. You find it in the store, you put it on and, "Oh, that's not cool. That's gangsta rap. That's white supremacist punk." But in a way, the content is removed from the intention of the people that made it. That's the commercial level of music.
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Gangsta
Rap
White
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