How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from This is Spinal Tap.
Quote #4
NIGEL: Yeah, it's part of a...trilogy really, a musical trilogy I'm doing, in D minor, which I always find is really the saddest of all keys really. I don't know why, but it makes people weep instantly.
Many musicians, actors or other artists who carve out a career for themselves creating work that isn't especially deep eventually get the itch to challenge themselves, as well as their fans' expectations of them. It seems Nigel is getting that itch, and wants to blow people's hearts, as well as their minds.
Quote #5
MARTY: Do you feel that playing rock'n'roll music keeps you a child? That is, keeps you in a state of arrested development?
DEREK: No... no... no, I feel, it's like, it's more like going, going to a national park, or something, and there's, you know, they preserve the moose and that's, that's my childhood up there on stage is that moose, you know?
We're not going to act like we have a clue what Derek is talking about here. Like, we could hazard a guess, but we'd only be guessing.
The great thing about music, though, is that whatever it means to you, that's totally cool. No one else can tell you what it should make you feel or think, or how it should represent your childhood. And, if it does represent your childhood, what animal form it might or might not take.