Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the more you just start sounding like an ordinary guitarist. There are certainly guitarists that transcend that and do really find their sound and all that sort of stuff.
From Nick Cave
I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.
'Inspiration' is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything.
If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings are overrated.
There are methods to creating a mayhem that sounds different from your usual mayhem. Because mayhem and a heavy drum backbeat end up sounding like Green Day or something. But if you put a different beat within it to create some air and lightness, the chaos comes through better.
I am not interested in anything that doesn't have a genuine heart to it. You've got to have soul in the hole. If that isn't there, I don't see the point.
People are always surprised to see clues to my being a normal kind of guy. As if I'm somehow letting the team down.
Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It's a reduction of things.
Musicians are at the bottom of the creative pyramid and authors are at the top, and many people think it's unacceptable for someone to attempt to jump from the bottom to the top of the pyramid.
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