What's completely insane to me is that people would consider music that's simple to be dumbed-down. Couldn't simplicity be a deliberate, smart choice?
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I'm a big fan of simplicity, especially with songs and I try not to make them complicated. I just make them simple and let people absorb that message themselves. That's my theory.
I just like simplicity. I like simple songs, I like simple chords, simple vocals, simple lead guitar. I just like simplicity. That's just the way I like it.
Simplicity is a state of mind.
Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.
A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try and write melodies that continue to resonate.
But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.
It is easy to write unthinking music.
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get that, and go for the simple songs, but I prefer something a bit more complicated, which is more meaningful to the creator.
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