Cameron Crowe

Cameron Crowe· Guest0:00

The Zane Lowe Interview Series Cameron Crowe, it's great to finally meet you, man. Amazing. Great to be here.

Zane Lowe· Host0:05

Yeah, dude. I feel like we've... I don't know, for me, and this is really bold of me to say, but I feel like we share quite a lot of simil- similarities in terms of how we feel about music- Yeah ... how we've approached it in our lives, and I've been excited to meet you for a long time, so nice one.

Cameron Crowe· Guest0:16

Likewise. Well, you wave the flag for all that we hold dear, a song that can take you to a certain place and- You know it ... leave that feeling, linger in it, live in it. It's the best.

Zane Lowe· Host0:25

'Cause that song has energy. I just figured this out quite recently. I think I've always known it, but I never put it into w- words, uh, uh, translated from my brain to words, the idea that music has the same amount of energy as a plant does. It's growing, and it's constantly finding its purpose.

Cameron Crowe· Guest0:38

Absolutely, and it, and it's, uh, it's all around you if you just open yourself up to it.

Zane Lowe· Host0:42

Yeah.

Cameron Crowe· Guest0:43

Nature is music. It's just, uh, the stuff that affects you and finds your heart.

Zane Lowe· Host0:47

Do you still have that moment where you're in an airport, you know, like a waiting room, where you're walking through a terminal, you're in a car, someone's playing something, and you're like, [snaps fingers] "Go to Shazam. Now I gotta figure out what that is." Are you just always attune to it?

Cameron Crowe· Guest0:57

Absolutely. What's wild to me is the music that happened 30, 40, 50 years ago is still kind of present.

Zane Lowe· Host1:05

Mm.

Cameron Crowe· Guest1:06

Whereas when I first started writing and doing some of the stuff that, that, that's described in the book, 40, 50 years earlier was, like, Al Jolson and, like- Mm ... Vaudeville and stuff.

Zane Lowe· Host1:16

Mm. Mm. Mm. Mm.

Cameron Crowe· Guest1:16

And, and it was long ago- Mm ... that that happened, it seemed. But it's the power of songs, I think. It's the power of, of somebody that put words to music and created a feeling, and it's like you, you don't wanna leave it. And,