SIX at 6: The Boiler Room, 20 Years of Not Writing, Nightmares of Failure, Expectations of Success, Chair Upholstery, and The Delusion of Perfection - Billy Oppenheimer
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SIX at 6: The Boiler Room, 20 Years of Not Writing, Nightmares of Failure, Expectations of Success, Chair Upholstery, and The Delusion of Perfection - Billy Oppenheimer
Although he maintains a regular working schedule, Adams also tries not to overplan his musical life. “I actually really demand from myself a sort of inordinate amount of unstructured freedom,” he says. “I don’t want to know what I’m doing the next year or even the next week. I somehow have this feeling that to keep the spontaneity from my creative
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Any instinct that I might have as a commercial animal is not even there at the beginning of a record. Perhaps it’s a part of the process for making records that have soul. I let everything unfold naturally, all ideas considered, even song choices. Never say no. As time travels, some song or some part of the record will raise its hand as the commerc
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The other side is usually a dark place?
Murakami in The New YorkerRead fiction and essays by the author.
Not necessarily. I think it has more to do with curiosity. If there is a door and you can open it and enter that other place, you do it. It’s just curiosity. What’s inside? What’s over there? So that’s what I do every day. When I’m writing a nove... See more
Murakami in The New YorkerRead fiction and essays by the author.
Not necessarily. I think it has more to do with curiosity. If there is a door and you can open it and enter that other place, you do it. It’s just curiosity. What’s inside? What’s over there? So that’s what I do every day. When I’m writing a nove... See more
Deborah Treisman • The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami
