Everything is biographical, Lucian Freud says.. What we make, why it is made, how we draw a dog, who it is we are drawn to, why we cannot forget. Everything is collage, even genetics. There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border we cross. –Michael Ondaatje, Divisadero
“Somebody’s Calling Me” was written in the middle of the night, and usually I’m pretty purposeful about my grand theft, like stealing the guitar sound from [Robert] Fripp for “All I Want” and stuff like that. “Somebody’s Calling Me” was written in my sleep, and the original was just the piano and the beat and the singing. And that was it, because I was on Xanax and asleep, and that’s what I did in the middle of the night. But then when I was working on it, putting in the little synth sounds and stuff like that, I was totally like, “Ha ha, this sounds like ‘Nightclubbing.’ Let’s put some crazy synth sounds on it.” Once you find out it sounds like that, you just have to allow yourself to use what you like, or else you’re trying to hide it—and that’s usually a way to make a boring song. I’d rather have a song I like that sounds like another song, than a song that I’m hoping nobody notices sounds like another song that I’m not that into. —James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem
Your blog is “Fresh” and inspiring! It reminds me that it’s not only all right to look at others work for inspiration but it’s actually part of the process!
I just found your blog and have spent the last hour pouring through your insights. I found that it hits at the heart of an artist trying to find the right place for their creativity and how best to fuel that drive.
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Bruno from Brazil sends in another one:
Hi Austin, Love these quotes !!
Here’s another quote about collage…
Adele + Matt – awesome quotes, thanks!
Doak over on the Newspaper Blackout Facebook page added this one:
Ecclesiastes 1:9 (New American Standard Bible)
9(A)That which has been is that which will be,
And that which has been done is that which will be done.
So there is nothing new under the sun.
Your blog is “Fresh” and inspiring! It reminds me that it’s not only all right to look at others work for inspiration but it’s actually part of the process!
I just found your blog and have spent the last hour pouring through your insights. I found that it hits at the heart of an artist trying to find the right place for their creativity and how best to fuel that drive.
Thanks, i’ll be back again.