Even the most dismal and hopeless-sounding Wilco music, to my ears, has always maintained a level of hope and consolation.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Consolation of music is different from the one of words. It starts from the inside... It cries with you instead of telling you to stop crying.
As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs.
Music has always been my constant, my salvation. It's cliche to write that, but it's true.
Thank God for beautiful songs about feeling despair when you yourself are in despair. They really get us through.
Only the artists interest me whose hearts beat in unison with the poignant misery of the world. If you have not felt that, you have not lived. Pity is essential.
For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.
The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.
I am convinced that music, like philanthropy, bridges hope.
Pity speaks to grief More sweetly than a band of instruments.
With sad music, or music that's perceived as sad, there's a sense of solidarity that can be really powerful. My songs are all joyful to me.