Thanks Ali for the gift of this book.
Some notes:
- “It’s soul-crushing, at any job, to aspire to BE something versus being driven by what you want to DO. Do you want to be a ‘start’? Don’t bother. You’re going to lose” (9)
- “Maybe it’s a cliche, but you have to focus on verbs over nouns-what you want to do, not what you want to be” (10)
- “You will be surprised how good it feels to hear yourself sing your own song” (10)
- “At the core of any creative art is an impulso to make manifest our powerful desire to connect - with others, with ourselves, with the sacred, with God?” (11)
- “creating something with no ambition other than to get something off our chest might be the purest thing anyone could aim for” (14)
- “Inspiration is rarely the first step. When it does come out of the blue, it’s glorious. But it’s much more in your own hands than the divine-intervention-type believes we all tend to have about inspiration. Most of the time, inspiration has to be invited” (17)
- “It’s the door to the disappearing that I’ve already describe as my ultimate deesire creative state-being able to get ‘gone” enough long enough for a song to appear” (17)
I’m very exited to keep digging on this book, now I’ll start writing a song.