The Internet is a big distraction. It's distracting, it's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere.
Too much information about nothing.
Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.
It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
If you aim to be controversial for the sake of it you'd end up with a very thin and meaningless show.
If I had to write a book, I could not find anything in the world worth saying - as is indeed the case with many voluminous authors.
RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas.
Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
An author frequently chooses solemn or overwhelming subjects to write about; he is so impressed at writing about Life and Death that he does not notice that he is saying nothing of the slightest importance about either.
The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so fluffy and meaningless, you feel like an idiot even complaining about it.
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
Because of the influence of the cinema, most reports or stories of violence are so pictorial that they lack content or meaning. The camera brings them to our eyes, but does not settle them in our minds, nor in time.
The corner of the 'food media' that I think is troublesome to me is the shows on TV that don't really have a point or don't have a lesson to be learned. If you don't have a point, or if there's not some part of it that is meaningful and can change someone's life, in my old age, I'm just not into it.
The great virtue of the web, its ease of communication, has also become its Achilles' heel in that it has polluted the air with meaningless babble and egomaniacal drivel.
I think you only have to pull stunts if the content of your music is meaningless.
I think that most people who write about music just want to fill some paper. They're not really interested in getting to the heart of something. Otherwise, they wouldn't write what they write.
These days what's not worth saying gets set to music.
