Creativity Quote by Santiago Durango

"They're there because, for some reason, they have the notion that they're supposed to be there" is a deceptively casual demolition of a whole social script. Durango isn’t describing desire or conviction; he’s describing choreography. People show up not from hunger but from habit, from an inherited idea of what the day is for, what a scene requires, what a "normal" person does at the right time and place. The phrase "for some reason" does a lot of work: it shrugs at the mystery of why the script exists while exposing how thin the motivation often is. Nobody can name the reason, but everyone feels the obligation.

As a musician, Durango is likely circling the ecology around music: audiences at shows, kids in subcultures, hangers-on at parties, even bands themselves. It’s a sideways look at crowd psychology and cultural gravity. People congregate because attendance is treated like proof - proof you belong, proof you’re not missing out, proof you’re the kind of person who "goes". That’s the subtext: presence becomes performance, and the performance is guided by invisible rules.

The intent isn’t contempt so much as clarity. Durango frames conformity as a belief system so mundane it barely registers as belief. In a culture where scenes are built on authenticity, he points out the uncomfortable truth: a lot of "authentic" participation starts as compliance. The line lands because it sounds like an offhand observation, but it cuts like a diagnosis.