nice, nice words from neil. i don't agree with your take on joni's motivation, but that's just fine. thanks a lot for this bit.
patrick np - taming the tiger, which i've for some reason been listening a lot to lately. just love the title song. be nice, kitty, kitty... >-----Original Message----- >From: Victor Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 1:38 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; patrick leader >Subject: RE: dancing to architecture > > > >> >> furthermore, i think nietsche's statement is perverse in its avoidance of >> the fact that art is always searching to describe what's outside of >itself. >> does joni think writing should only be about writing? does she write >music >> that's only about music? is poetry about love lame because it's not >> actually love? of course not, but neitsche and joni miss that point. >> > >This excerpt from a Neil Young interview below I think really captures the >idea about art, music in this case, searching to describe what's outside of >itself. I think Joni's statement is more about herself, as statements >often are, that "she" probably couldn't write about music...but some people >do very well... > >Victor > >*EXCERPT from > >New York Times - Sunday Magazine 7/30/00 > >Neil Young On a Good Day >By Steve Erickson > > >''I just didn't like people telling me what to do,'' he explains almost >offhandedly. ''I didn't like people telling me if I made more records like >'Harvest,' I would be successful. That's when I came up with the concept of >destroying what I created in order to move on. I wanted to do what I called >audio verite.'' > >He pauses and looks out the window. ''At a certain point, trained, >accomplished musicians'' -- which is to say, not him -- hit the wall. They >don't go there very often, they don't have the tools to go through the >wall, because it's the end of notes. It's the other side, where there's >only tone, sound, ambience, landscape, earthquakes, pictures, fireworks, >the sky opening, buildings falling, subways collapsing. . . . When you go >through the wall, the music takes on that kind of atmosphere, and it >doesn't translate the way other music translates. When you get to the other >side, you can't go back. I don't know too many musicians who try to go >through the wall.'' He stops for a moment. ''I love to go through the >wall,'' as if you ever doubted it for a moment.
