Six cultural luminaries—on feelings of loss: “I’m 71, and when you get older you lose more and more. Your accumulated memory and personal history are a huge compensation, but you have fewer people to share that with,” says singer-songwriter James Taylor.
“My first successful song was ‘Fire and Rain,’ which starts with losing a friend to suicide. There’s a cumulative emotional quality to it, a message that’s useful to hear. Why do people sing the blues? It’s because it helps to share it with other people and to expiate it—to have it out in front of you.
What you always hope for as a songwriter is that your way of manifesting your emotions will be useful to other people. But, generally, we don’t engage with things that are hard. In modern culture, do we go too far in the direction of never doing anything that’s unpleasant? It’s almost like we’re entitled to...
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