💫✨𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐍 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝐉𝐀𝐏𝐀𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐏𝐓 𝐖𝐀𝐁𝐈-𝐒𝐀𝐁𝐈✨💫

📢“The thing that I really like about Japanese culture, something that I’ve just only recently discovered is sort of a notion or a concept of wabi-sabi which I find absolutely, really really fascinating. I’m not sure if I completely understand it but well… We live in a world where we are all kind of striving for perfection: we want the perfect face, the perfect body, the perfect car, the perfect job, the perfect partner, the perfect Facebook profile, you know, the perfect friends, the perfect children... And I think it’s leading to a very modern malaise, sort of unhappiness that exists in society even though we have so much. And from what I can understand a thing about wabi-sabi is that it says that the perfection and the beauty is in the imperfection. When I first heard that it just made a complete sense to me, it was almost like it is something that you’ve always kind of already known but somebody else articulated. And for me it is a very very powerful and very very freeing notion and idea is that what makes you uniquely you is your imperfection, and that’s what’s beautiful. So, for me, that discovery was… even if it was quite recent, was something that, you know, was very powerful and very moving for me.”
(𝑆𝑒𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑡 𝑆𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝑇𝑜𝑘𝑦𝑜, 2010)

Secret Session in Tokyo. Photo credit: Hennessy Artistry 

⭐️In 2015, during Placebo’s 𝑴𝑻𝑽 𝑼𝒏𝒑𝒍𝒖𝒈𝒈𝒆𝒅 concert, Brian mentioned the concept of wabi-sabi again speaking about his most beloved guitar called 𝑩𝒂𝒃𝒚.
No doubt, of all the music instruments, guitar is Brian’s biggest love. At the age of 16, he’s got a Telecaster replica as a present from his parents and taught himself to play it. Soon after, he bought a real Telecaster. Through the years, he put together a great collection of guitars which became not just the instruments but friends. As we know, he gave names to some of them.
Right before playing an acoustic version of 𝐓𝐨𝐨 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬, Brian introduced the audience of MTV Unplugged to the “love of his life” among guitars.

📢“I’d like to say a few words about this guitar. I call this guitar my ‘Baby’. It’s from 1956 and it’s the guitar that I do most of my writing on and I absolutely adore it. And it’s beautifully damaged. It’s a Japanese concept called ‘wabi-sabi’ which means that perfection is in the imperfection. And the way this guitar looks represents that perfectly for me.”
(𝑀𝑇𝑉 𝑈𝑛𝑝𝑙𝑢𝑔𝑔𝑒𝑑, 2015)

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