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• GoodbyeBlueMonday@startrek.website ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Reminds me of what Warren Zevon had to say about rich people problems, off Preludes. It came out a few years after his death, and the back half of the album has snippets from some radio interview(s?) he did. Neat musings by a complex dude: he was creative genius in a lot of ways, and a titanic asshole in a lot of other ways (he asked his ex-wife to write his biography, and to not go easy on him - alcoholism, violence, absentee parenting…it’s all there).

  Anyway, that’s a preface for the folks who don’t know about him: he probably could have been a bigger financial success had he not been a disaster of a human, but maybe his dirty life and times gave him enough material to feed his creativity…who knows.

  WZ: I was real lucky, because I always had some kind of work that came along - at the last minute, anyway. I was always able to make some kind of living as a musician I also never really got rich, and that might have been lucky too, ya know?

  Interviewer: in what way?

  WZ: Well, because the less time you spend with the issues of being rich they’re like the issues of being famous they’re not real issues so they’re not real life.

  Interviewer: And it leaves more time to be creative?

  WZ: There’s more of an exchange - a human exchange of ideas and feelings to be had on the bus stop than over the phone with your accountant, and if you’re rich you spend a lot of time on the phone with your accountant. it’s necessary, I believe. I know I’m happy and that means I must be lucky. That I know.

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  • lobut@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve not heard of Warren Zevon of maybe I have and not yet known it. However, that was a great recount of that interview and I’m happy to have read it.

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    • GoodbyeBlueMonday@startrek.website ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I appreciate you taking the time to say that! Thank you. My favorite song by him is probably Desperados Under the Eaves, if you’d ever like to hear the best of his music.

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• penquin@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yup, it’s like it washes off their souls out of their bodies. I wouldn’t wanna be in that spot to be honest.

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