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As I try to wrap my head around my upcoming mission to Atlanta, I keep asking myself “What is more important, to entertain or to enlighten?” It’s made me turn introspective and all spiritually and eventually go looking for my Daniel Lanois DVD (which I still haven’t found). So here I am, digging on Youtube again:

Almost at the end of the first part, Lanois says:

“…and as performers, we witness the raising of the Spirit, you know, the capacity the music has to change the feeling of a room. So we can’t help but be spiritual people…”
and

Near then end of this clip, Lanois says:
” Heart and soul is probably what’s most important in the “center of the matter”, and especially within an education system that we’ve sorta been brought up in, we are led to believe that if you’re interested in a subject matter, then you should study. But in fact, Passion is probably your greatest teacher, because even as a kid, if you’re passionate about something, you can learn how to do it through looking at books, asking friends, listening to records…whatever you’re interested in.”

Passion. That’s what I’ve gotta book.

Second installment:

I’d have these weird experiences where I’d just be walking down the street with this chord progression in my head, this happened more than a few times, and I’d walk home and find a fax in my machine and it would match the music in my head.
Duncan Sheik

The first installment:

The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There’s also a negative side.
                                                                             –Hunter S. Thompson