Creativity Quote by Daisy Berkowitz

There is a quiet politics in that word “chance”: not a triumphal “platform,” not a savvy “brand opportunity,” but a narrow window that could slam shut. Daisy Berkowitz frames performance as access, not conquest. The line carries the lived reality of underground music scenes, where the biggest obstacle isn’t hostile critics, it’s simple invisibility. You can be great and still unheard.

The intent is modest, almost self-effacing, and that’s the point. By centering “people who would never have heard us otherwise,” she shifts the spotlight away from the band’s ego and onto the audience’s accident of discovery. It’s a reminder that most fandom isn’t destiny; it’s logistics. Someone books the right bill. A tour lands in a town that doesn’t usually get your kind of noise. A festival lineup scrambles genre boundaries and suddenly your music reaches ears that weren’t “supposed” to find it.

The subtext also reads like a defense of compromise without calling it compromise. Opening slots, side stages, atypical venues, even imperfect sound systems can be worth it if the trade is exposure to the uninitiated. It’s outreach dressed in humility: we didn’t “convert” anyone; we simply got heard.

In that sense, the quote captures a pre-algorithmic worldview where discovery is physical and contingent. Today, recommendation engines pretend everyone is one click away. Berkowitz is describing the older, messier truth: audiences are gated by geography, scenes, and who gets invited onto the stage.