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Johnny Cash: "You have to be filled up in order to pour out"
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In SomeVapourTrail's blog about My Companions he states in part:
To me, this observation gets to the heart of what it takes to resonate as an artist and is worth repeating. It is, indeed, a quality that extends beyond rationality.
Included in SVT's list of companions who have the quality to get inside of you is Johnny Cash, an artist he describes as:
I am not yet ready myself to make up my own list of great companions of the heart. However, I most certainly would include Johnny Cash. There are dozens of great videos posted on the web that capture his resonating voice, his own troubled soul, his appeal to the common man and the dispossessed, and his abiding love for his soul-mate [June Carter]. In fact, I just spent much of my Sunday morning just clicking and watching both artists perform and speak.
You can and should do the same on a lazy Sunday. However, for many artists who have yet to find your own compass, I came across the following interview [about 9 minutes well worth your time] in particular that I thought was a must watch to find inspiration and guidance when in the dark places:
"You have to be filled up in order to pour out..." [@6:24]
Sometimes I think that the voices of certain singers are as familiar to me as the voices of my closest friends and family ....Those voices ...are my companions through bad times and great times.
... Some of those...voices... are... keys to my ... heart. They will always guide me through times when I have fits of excessive rationality.
To me, this observation gets to the heart of what it takes to resonate as an artist and is worth repeating. It is, indeed, a quality that extends beyond rationality.
Included in SVT's list of companions who have the quality to get inside of you is Johnny Cash, an artist he describes as:
Johnny Cash (I love his deep voice, powerful and fragile, fierce and affectionate. The two times I had the chance to see him live on stage are among the most impressing moments of music I ever experienced.)
I am not yet ready myself to make up my own list of great companions of the heart. However, I most certainly would include Johnny Cash. There are dozens of great videos posted on the web that capture his resonating voice, his own troubled soul, his appeal to the common man and the dispossessed, and his abiding love for his soul-mate [June Carter]. In fact, I just spent much of my Sunday morning just clicking and watching both artists perform and speak.
You can and should do the same on a lazy Sunday. However, for many artists who have yet to find your own compass, I came across the following interview [about 9 minutes well worth your time] in particular that I thought was a must watch to find inspiration and guidance when in the dark places:
"You have to be filled up in order to pour out..." [@6:24]
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I think pouring out takes many forms...sometimes it might not even feel like a good thing. But if the ability to pour out is there, then I suppose one could take comfort in knowing that one is full of something - and that is lifetimes better than nothing at all!
Cash reminded me that the best connection I have with my partner is through music, on the worst of days, I know that we will always find a common space there. Thanks for posting this TCC.
Did you see the Cash interview at my blog? If not, check it out.
You are the man from Hope. TCC