This was the very reason why we made music: we take something that exists within all of us at our very fundamental core, our emotions, and through our artistic lens, through our creativity, we’re able to shape those emotions into reality.

Gupta frames music-making as an act of translation: emotions are universal and pre-verbal, but art gives them form that can be shared. The “artistic lens” suggests that musicians do not merely express feeling raw; they select, shape, and refine it through technique, style, and imagination until it becomes something audible and communicable. The line also implies a moral or humanistic purpose for music—its value lies in making inner life real to others, creating empathy and connection. In this view, performance is not ornament but a way of turning private experience into a public reality that listeners can recognize as their own.