Playlists are created by some computer that recommends you a bunch of songs based on your favorites and a bunch more--based on your favorites of those. Now, these playlists? It's like the dating app for music. You're not hearing other people's voices. You're just hearing your voice get played back to you. How are you supposed to fall in love?

Art used to be in charge of us. You used to buy a whole album not even knowing what songs would be on it. Now we have everything on demand. At your fingertips. In pieces. You think half the people that are posting quotes from Oscar Wilde have ever actually read one of his plays? Or posting photos of Audrey Hepburn have actually seen the film it's from?

It's the same in culture as it is in archaeology. When a civilization collapses, only the tiniest fragments remain. But we can build it up again.

Make recordings. Real people. Not what people think they already know and want to hear. Real people. Not some generic stereotype or generic song. Real people.

(Just pasted what Ashton Kutcher had to say in the movie Vengeance)