"When I make music, I always try to create something that people can relate to and something that can inspire others"
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The phrasing is tellingly modest. "Try" softens the claim, but it also implies a standard he measures himself against: connection isn't automatic, it has to be engineered. "People can relate to" is pop's most democratic promise, a way of saying the song belongs to the listener as much as the artist. For Walker, whose career was built on viral circulation and a global, often faceless fanbase, that matters. EDM can be accused of being mood furniture; he counters by insisting on narrative feeling, even if it's delivered through synths and drops rather than confessional lyrics.
"Inspire others" is the second move: it shifts from empathy to agency. He's not just chasing streams, he's chasing aftereffects - the teen who learns production because "Faded" cracked something open, the listener who turns a chorus into fuel. Subtextually, it's also brand stewardship. Walker's aesthetic has long blurred individuality into a larger community mythos; "inspire" keeps the spotlight from becoming self-worship.
Contextually, it's a pop figure articulating what audiences now demand: not perfection, but resonance, and not celebrity, but usefulness.
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| Topic | Music |
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Walker, Alan. (2026, January 15). When I make music, I always try to create something that people can relate to and something that can inspire others. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/when-i-make-music-i-always-try-to-create-172191/
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Walker, Alan. "When I make music, I always try to create something that people can relate to and something that can inspire others." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/when-i-make-music-i-always-try-to-create-172191/.
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"When I make music, I always try to create something that people can relate to and something that can inspire others." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/when-i-make-music-i-always-try-to-create-172191/. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.




