P 331 Quotes

“In the end, he drew the same conclusion about my songs that I did. They change meaning the second someone claims them. They belong to every person who listens in specific ways I'll never comprehend.
If music is an offering, I'd hold mine out to the world and say, I made this with the best intentions. You can share it with me, if you want, and take a piece of it to keep for good. You can even move it to a different place on the circle and make it into something else, something unrecognizable to my eyes, and that would be an honor.
It would be an honor to see where I end and where music keeps going. It would be an honor to see what happens when other people claim pieces of the art I made. And even when that happens, it won't change this, or what it meant to me when I made it.”
― Clare Gilmore, Never Over