Creativity Quote by Eric San

“Nothing to do with anything, something to do with everything” is the kind of line that sounds like a shrug until you realize it’s a thesis statement for how a lot of modern music actually works. Coming from Eric San, it reads less like a philosopher’s paradox and more like a musician’s survival tactic: in an era of infinite stimuli, the job is to grab stray signals and make them feel inevitable.

The first half is a defensive move. “Nothing to do with anything” rejects the old demand that art justify itself with a neat narrative or a clean genre label. It’s a refusal of the press-kit storyline, the forced coherence that turns experimentation into a marketable “influence map.” San’s phrasing has a casual, almost throwaway tone that signals freedom: it doesn’t have to “mean” in the traditional way to matter.

Then the pivot: “something to do with everything.” That’s the emotional reveal. Even the most abstract track is still made out of lived culture - ads, politics, late-night doomscrolling, club sweat, nostalgia, software presets, the mood of a city. The line captures how sampling, looping, and collage don’t erase context; they metabolize it. What looks disconnected is actually hyper-connected, because the listener brings their own associations, and the world leaks in whether you want it to or not.

The intent is anti-explanation, but not anti-significance. It’s permission to make “nonsense” that still tells the truth about what it feels like to live inside everything at once.