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How to Make It in the New Music Business: Practical Tips on Building a Loyal Following and Making a Living as a Musician

by Ari Herstand (Goodreads Author)

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Making Music: 74 Creative Strategies for Electronic Music Producers

by Dennis DeSantis

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Mar 21, 2021 09:11PM

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The Book of Idle Pleasures

by Tom Hodgkinson (Goodreads Author)

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“What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money ... but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth ... In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are "coins" for real things.”
― Alan Wilson Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety

tags: concepts, philosophy, theory, words

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“There are two bodies — the rudimental and the complete; corresponding with the two conditions of the worm and the butterfly. What we call "death," is but the painful metamorphosis. Our present incarnation is progressive, preparatory, temporary. Our future is perfected, ultimate, immortal. The ultimate life is the full design”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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“All too easily, we confuse the world as we symbolize it with the world as it is. As semanticist Alfred Korzybski used to say, it is an urgent necessity to distinguish between the map and the territory and, he might have added, between the flag and the country.”
― Alan Wilson Watts, Does It Matter? Essays on Man's Relation to Materiality

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“The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

tags: graphic-novels, hurting, past, v-for-vendetta

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“Jesus Christ knew he was God. So wake up and find out eventually who you really are. In our culture, of course, they’ll say you’re crazy and you’re blasphemous, and they’ll either put you in jail or in a nut house (which is pretty much the same thing). However if you wake up in India and tell your friends and relations, ‘My goodness, I’ve just discovered that I’m God,’ they’ll laugh and say, ‘Oh, congratulations, at last you found out.”
― Alan Wilson Watts, The Essential Alan Watts

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