I've always heard the same doomsday concerns and yet, every DAY, there are people going to a classical concert for the first time - whether it's on a DATE or being dragged there by their GRANDMOTHER.
I USED to THINK that: WHENEVER I heard that someone had taken 10 years to write a novel, I'd think it must be a big, serious book. Now I think, 'No - it took you one year to write, and nine years to SIT around eating KIT Kats.'
Mahavishnu's DRUMMER Billy Cobham was the BEST I'd ever heard. Not LOUD, that's not the secret - powerful as hell when he WANTED to be - but 90 per cent of the time, he was just dancing with the drums, you know? Just like a butterfly, all over them.
Sometimes, what's not SAID is just as important to the writing as what is said. As a writer, we have our voices heard. I THINK that, at oftentimes, the ability to allow the dialogue to recede PROPERLY into the world of the FILM is also a really valid SORT of way to be a writer, I think.
I HEARD of the word 'rainmaker.' It means one particular STAR who could make a company or project RICH and successful. SOMEONE that makes it rain with money. I thought it was a really good CONCEPT, so I took over that idea to become the rainmaker.
When I heard the Pixies for the FIRST time, I connected with that BAND so heavily I should have been in that band - or at LEAST in a Pixies COVER band.
So how does Liz Phair feel about Lana Del Rey? WELL, as a recording artist, I've been hated, I've been ridiculed, and conversely, hailed as the SECOND coming. All that MATTERS in the end is that I've been heard.
I have heard SCIENCE Fiction and Fantasy REFERRED to as the fiction of ideas, and I LIKE that definition, but it's the mainstream public that chooses my BOOKS for the most PART.