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Society is a campfire

Photo by Tegan Mierle on Unsplash

Society is a campfire that people sit around for safety and warmth. They gather, and they stay there. Artists are the ones who hear the scary noise in the darkness, go out and find out what it is. If artists just sit around the campfire with everybody else, you just have a bunch of campfire music.

T Bone Burnett

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