August 18, 2004

sing in your own voice

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More thoughts on “How To Be Crea­tive”:

19. Sing in your own voice.

Pic­casso was a terri­ble colo­rist. Tur­ner couldn’t paint human beings worth a damn. Saul Steinberg’s for­mal draf­ting skills were appa­lling. TS Eliot had a full-time day job. Henry Miller was a wildly une­ven wri­ter. Bob Dylan can’t sing or play guitar.

But that didn’t stop them, right?
So I guess the next ques­tion is, “Why not?”
I have no idea. Why should it?

4 Responses to “sing in your own voice”

  1. paulo ribeiro says:
    August 18, 2004 at 10:59 pm

    that’s an encou­ra­ging piece of advice!

  2. ronald says:
    August 19, 2004 at 1:48 am

    you do have a point.

  3. Mr. Sun says:
    August 19, 2004 at 3:59 pm

    Yes, ins­pi­red ama­teu­rism trumps con­sis­tent pro­fes­sio­na­lism. Give me The Ramo­nes and John Ken­nedy Toole anyday.

  4. Business Cartoons says:
    August 21, 2004 at 3:50 pm

    I agree! Although some­ti­mes I find peo­ple simply belie­ving their work is the bee’s knees com­ple­tely lac­king in any capa­city to self-edit.