Hi All.
I never expected my question on creativity and inspiration to have
wandered so far away from my original thought. Perhaps I was unclear.
My intention was to learn how some of you get from point A
(inspiration) to point B (nuts and bolts}.
The one answer I really liked came from John
On 12 Apr 2005, at 2:19 PM, Bob Florence wrote:
I believe it was Christopher who suggested a book by Goldstein. I
don't remember the first name. It was a book on jazz composers.
Gil Goldstein. I met him a few weeks ago -- great guy. His book is
terrific. It's out of print, but you can get
At 4/12/2005 02:19 PM, Bob Florence wrote:
My intention was to learn how some of you get from point A
(inspiration) to point B (nuts and bolts}.
The one answer I really liked came from John Howell. He takes a
shower. so do I. For me that's the best place I can go to get
started. I am also very
I am sensitive to some of the issues that have been discussed here, but I don't take any of it personally. And the last time I checked, there seemed to be a little asshole in everyone of us.
FWIW Some of my favorite music came from a guy who had constructed a painful chemical dependency which
On Apr 12, 2005, at 2:19 PM, Bob Florence wrote:
My intention was to learn how some of you get from point A
(inspiration) to point B (nuts and bolts}.
The one answer I really liked came from John Howell.
I almost always start with the thought, wouldn't it be nice if there
were a piece of [x]
Phil Daley wrote:
The other time is about 2 or 3 AM when I am trying to get back to sleep
and I have this flash of insight. What I should do is have a music pad
and pencil at the bedstand, because, by morning, I have forgotten what
it was ;-)
If I got paid for my inspiration, I probably would
I remember the first song I wrote that people actually liked. It was in
the shower, too, and I ran out a la Archimides (I lived alone at the
time) into the living room and started plunking away on my guitar. Words
came almost automatically. Don't know how.
Subsequent to that, almost nothing
