“I really want to dedicate this song to the tragedy of last night because we’re all
“I really want to dedicate this song to the tragedy of last night because we’re all just wandering the Earth trying to find each other. We all just want to have a good time and suck every bit of love we can out of life, and it’s short sometimes and it’s so unfair. And sometimes things happen, I know, it’s like, we just go ‘what’s happening in the world and why is it happening?’ so I think we should take this one moment where we’re having this good time and we just do that thing where we put our phones away and just look at each other right now in this moment. Because when you leave the Earth, nobody’s going to give a fuck what you tweeted. Nobody’s going to care what picture you posted or what you caught. They’re not going to care about how famous I was. They’re going to care about how you leave here on this earth, your footprint. They’re going to care about whose life you saved, the people that you touched. They’re going to care about that one person you told that one little inspiration thing to, and they look back at you and knew they weren’t alone. So be there for each other right now, and when you leave tonight, go home, grab your guitar, grab your piano, and grab a pen and paper, and don’t give up. Don’t let the machine and don’t let technology take you into a place where you don’t belong. Stay right here on Earth, we need you. We need you to have crazy thoughts in your head. We need you to have fucked up dreams. And we need you to fight for them every single day. Don’t not do it because you don’t think it’ll ever happen. Don’t think it can’t happen because I can. I promise you. It’s happening to me right now. So just wander to Earth and spread all the compassion and love you can with every song you write, every film you make, and every bit of art you leave. Just fucking do it and you’ll be happy, I promise.” - Gaga’s speech at SXSW tonight. -- source link