Jeffrey Lewis Quotes
I realized I was not a great musical technician, if I was going to make anything interesting it would have to come from the creative side of me and not the craft side of me.
I prefer artists who are creative more than artists who are technical, I think everybody would agree with that.
I think the benefits are tremendous, and the power of accessibility in art is one of it's most explosive and insidious attributes.
I don't think talking about myself making songs is a very interesting topic, there are so many other more engaging things to think about and write about.
Everybody has a direct view of the person "behind" the art, so there is going to be a certain amount of awareness of who is making songs. But I like paintings where you can see the brush-strokes.
Unfortunately most easily-digested entertainment has as much actual content as a Spongebob Squarepants episode, so the trick is to try to fit actual nourishing content into enjoyable entertainment.
To be entertaining and educational and enlightening, all at once, this is a good goal to have.
In the past, Koreans have mostly copied other countries' engines, and so there's been kind of a problem with quality and a real limit on what they could do with that.
I usually think of art as having a measurable content of nourishment, whether factual or emotional or whatever, and I try to make sure that whatever I do has as much nourishment as I can muster.
A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art.
