We're always collecting experiences to use as songwriters.
David Harrington, the first violinist of the Kronos Quartet, which commissioned "Moving Houses," said that when he first encountered Mr. Ligeti's music, he felt "a powerful sense of this young composer collecting experiences from all over the place, almost being surprised by what would become part of his collection".
They became friends and fellow-partygoers, collecting experiences they would use years later in the lyrics for "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F .." In 2007, Perry got big; McKee remained behind, "in the trenches of Hollywood," writing and recording songs "in shithole studios behind Carl's Jr. junior".
Travelling through life with as little baggage as possible is wonderfully liberating, and collecting experiences over things gives me a much richer life.
So here I am, unencumbered, open to collecting experiences rather than things and getting back on the road in November from Florida to California, to freedom, to shedding my armor and opening my heart, which is clenched like a fist, in that safe place which is family.
"Diplomats -- " started Stefano Baldi, head of the Diplomatic Institute of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, "are observers of realities around them, and when they travel and they start collecting experiences, they get the hang of writing and they become writers-diplomats.
"Is it really relevant to anyone's collecting experience?
Based on our own collecting experience, there is even some reason to believe that the ENM for A. transcaspicus may actually over-predict the true geographic range of this species.
And as you collect experiences your basket builds up – and you want to leave with a full basket to remember.
He has collected experiences as if they were seashells on a psychedelic beach, and then perhaps discarded some of them before he got home.
Playgoers here, far from being put off by an overabundance of a certain title, can in some ways be seen to collect experiences of a certain show.
