"Inspiration Doesn't Come Looking For You"
16/11/16 19:12
I heard a great quote from Matty Healy, lead singer of the band The 1975. It went something like this:
Brilliant Eno thing “Inspiration doesn’t come looking for you”
You can’t jut sit there and expect something to happen. It’s after an hour and a half playing with the same sound when you move the [needle] a tiny bit, then you some happens and you say, that’s interesting.
I have to get the full quote. It was on NPR, All Songs Considered.
But that is so true. Inspiration usually comes after hours, days and months of drudge work. Progress is rarely linear after the initial stages. It is in fits & starts, with a lot of what seems like wasted effort. But it really isn’t waste. Yes, you can call it that after success has been achieved, but that is only in hindsight. That work is really building a foundation of general knowledge and tracking a lead to a conclusion, even if it is a dead end. Without that work, it is unlikely that success would have been achieved.
Brilliant Eno thing “Inspiration doesn’t come looking for you”
You can’t jut sit there and expect something to happen. It’s after an hour and a half playing with the same sound when you move the [needle] a tiny bit, then you some happens and you say, that’s interesting.
I have to get the full quote. It was on NPR, All Songs Considered.
But that is so true. Inspiration usually comes after hours, days and months of drudge work. Progress is rarely linear after the initial stages. It is in fits & starts, with a lot of what seems like wasted effort. But it really isn’t waste. Yes, you can call it that after success has been achieved, but that is only in hindsight. That work is really building a foundation of general knowledge and tracking a lead to a conclusion, even if it is a dead end. Without that work, it is unlikely that success would have been achieved.
