Music
Art requires access to the imagination, a notoriously difficult place to visit. The imagination fuels an idea. The artist acts urgently, often impulsively, on that idea but brings conscious rigor to the evaluation of what the imagination has spewed. Ultimately, experience, intellect, insight, and drive enable them to shape the work and then to edit
... See moreAdam Moss • The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing
I think of a song as something you build. It’s not something that you do, it’s not something that comes out of your gut. It’s like you have bricks, you have mortar, you have a trowel – You don’t have a building plan yet, you just have all the raw materials and you just start building it and you hope to god you get something good.