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Tal Wilkenfeld: belief

9 Jan 2024 Lex Fridman Podcast #408 – Tal Wilkenfeld: Music, Guitar, Bass, Jeff Beck, Prince, and Leonard Cohen

“I think that loneliness is a product of feeling separate from the world, and separate from others.”

— Tal Wilkenfeld

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Speaker
Tal Wilkenfeld
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
9 Jan 2024
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

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…You said you sometimes watch classic movies to inspire your songwriting, and you mentioned watching Taxi Driver. I love that movie. And I think you mentioned that you wrote a love song based on that movie. So Travis Bickle, for people who don’t know, is a taxi driver and he’s deeply lonely. What do you think about that kind of loneliness? I think that loneliness is a product of feeling separate from the world, and separate from others. And that the less you experience that separation, the less you’ll feel lonely. How often have you felt lonely in this way, separated from the rest of the world?…

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