Two reasons, which I’m pretty sure are the only reasons to get obsessed with anything on God’s green earth: 1. Music 2. Girls What else in life is there to obsess about? There be music, and there be girls. Everything else is
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“All art is a work in progress. It’s helpful to see the piece we’re working on as an experiment. One in which we can’t predict the outcome. Whatever the result, we will receive useful information that will benefit the next experiment. If you start from the position that there is no right or wrong, no good or bad, and creativity is just free play with no rules, it’s easier to submerge yourself joyfully in the process of making things. We’re not playing to win, we’re playing to play. And ultimately, playing is fun. Perfectionism gets in the way of fun. A more skillful goal might be to find comfort in the process. To make and put out successive works with ease.”
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
“Zoom in and obsess. Zoom out and observe. We get to choose.”
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
“Jim Adkins: ...There was a girl who wrote us, explaining how she felt like an outsider at her school because the punk rock kids wouldn't accept her, even though she liked us and a lot of the really obscure bands we toured with. And I just thought 'It's not worth your time to trip on this. Punk rock is and should be inclusive. That's the one thing I know. No matter what your definition of punk is, everyone would say that it's inclusive, it welcomes outsiders. Freak flags welcome. Wave 'em around. These chicks don't get it at all, don't waste your time trying to get their approval.' That's where the main idea for the lyrics to 'The Middle' came from.”
― Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo’s Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008
― Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo’s Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008
“All that matters is that you are making something you love, to the best of your ability, here and now.”
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
“Maria Sherman: ...I also wonder if people who are loyalists to this music--ride or die Warped Tour every year--I imagine at a certain point they were sick of seeing bands they love blow up to an enormous size and no longer feel like their own. Not that you have to be younger to experience that but . . . there's such a feeling of ownership of this music that you connect to deeply. And after a while it's like, 'Okay, well it got too big. I'm out.”
― Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo’s Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008
― Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo’s Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008
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