Derek Sivers, founder of CDBaby, has launched a new site called Music Thoughts which pretty much sums up its sole purpose – as a repository for music related quotes & thoughts, heres a random example from Robert Fripp:
It reminds me a little of Brian Enos Oblique Strategies although the thoughts contained within those are more specifically philosophical & relevant to the creative process in terms of provoking change… I own a copy of the 4th series of Oblique Strategies & consult them occasionally – the fifth series are still available although so is a free version for the iPhone/iPod Touch…
Music Thoughts is a great idea – whenever I’m reading a book or wandering around the interweb & come across a spark of wisdom specifically relevant to me I tend to write it down in my moleskin, as good thoughts are very worth revisiting. Relevant to this, on the front page of my current moleskin I have a saying I try to refer to often. Its says: “we become what we think about” and at a later date I’ve added in brackets “so think the future”
It was prompted by watching the following video, basically its a speech by Earl Nightingale (who sounds a LOT like Orson Welles) & it is very worth the ten minutes to check it out, its not new or quirky – its just worth thinking about…
Another great quote form that video: “The opposite of courage is not cowardice, its conformity” or in short form: “baaaaaaaa”
ps Earl wasnt the first person to come up with that saying, Buddha beat him by quite a few decades!
“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.”
