It's a Long Story
Tom Waits finally found his sense of permission to deal with his creativity more lightly—without so much drama, without so much fear. A lot of this lightness, Waits said, came from watching his children grow up and seeing their total freedom of creative expression. He noticed that his children felt fully entitled to make up songs all the time, and
... See moreElizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
He played the whole of ‘Key to the Highway.’ At the end, he asked me in English, ‘So, what’s the verdict, Shorty?’ I asked if I could ever learn to play like that. ‘No,’ he told me, ‘because’—I’ll always remember this—‘you haven’t lived my life and the blues is a language you can’t lie in.’ But if I wanted it enough, he said, then one day I’d learn
... See moreDavid Mitchell • Utopia Avenue
THE ARTIST LEARNS TO COMMIT FOR A LIFETIME * * * It's easy for Bob Dylan or Neil Young to say, "I'm never going back to work in the bean fields." What about you and me? Can we say it and mean it?
Steven Pressfield • The Artist's Journey: The Wake of the Hero's Journey and the Lifelong Pursuit of Meaning
Even if you want to be big someday, remember that you never need to act like a big boring company. Over ten years, it seemed like every time someone raved about how much he loved CD Baby, it was because of one of these little fun human touches.
Derek Sivers • Anything You Want
