Here’s yet another piece in Who Said That! Depicting what we people have uttered in a moment of elation, insight, inspiration, wisdom, despair – or any other emotion. Try to guess/remember first who said that, and if you don’t know, you’ll see who it was at the very end of the article. Remember to scroll very s l o w l y.
GET RID OF THE SHITTY SOUND.
LIFE IS TOO SHORT.
Some might think that the first sentence of that quotation is presumptuous. For who determines what is “shitty sound”? For surely there is music for all personality types, and for all sorts of moods and needs.
Well, we do know that there is both good music and well, less good music. And the kind of music that makes you think: how can anyone listen to that!? And definitely also the kind that a great number of us never get enough of listening to.
And yes, life is too short for doing something less desirable when you could be doing something that elevates you as a human being. And even if we can’t always choose, or don’t even want to, oftentimes we can. But as far as music goes, constructive and destructive elements may forever walk hand in hand to create something new within us. We may land in a whole new place. And become whole - even if only for a moment.
So who said that?
The Austrian composer and record producer Hans Zimmer from whom we have heard such masterpieces as Time (from the 2010 movie Inception), and Interstellar (2014). Here is Time: