Sometimes art is about being wowed and sometimes it's just about doing it together.
- Sometimes art is about being wowed and sometimes it's just about doing it together.
- Before recorded music, we'd play music on our front porch with our neighbors.
- Most music people had heard was from other amateur musicians they knew.
- So your own music didn't sound that much worse.
- Now the median song we've heard is among the very top quality of anyone in the world.
- Everyone who isn't a professional sounds terrible relative to that.
- So we don't do it… and don't get the social cohesion of just being in the moment together.
- Modern society is all about optimizing for the "best", as opposed to the joy of the production.