2024.01.25
[we used to talk about] the most pretentious shit possible. [For example?] We talk an awful lot about whether you have to stop at libertarianism or go on to anarchocapitalism(I wasn't sure if it was in that or this 1994 piece in Wired)
- When in doubt review your statement of intent
- You want to be daring and new but never be ashamed if you find a place within a Tradition or the Tradition
- Any instrument can be a folk music instrument if it's played by the folks, and we all are just folks
- If you deal honestly with complex subjects, no one will be able to tell that your work is minimalist
- Dress like you want to sound.
- The foundation of American music is Jazz, and the foundation of Jazz is collaboration. Play with others when you can to enrich yourself and to enrich others.
- The soul sounds of Curtis Mayfield and Isaac Hayes, the psychadelia of Charalambides and Lau Nau, the American Pop of Paul Simon and Violent Femmes. It's all folk music
- Reject the worldly idea of becoming a great musician... JUST LIVE MUSIC! (this one is borrowed directly from Mononeon. Take it. Live it. Make it a part of you and never forget or deny where that part of you came from. That's what being in the tradition is)
- Face what it is you do before you ask others to face it.
- Make your voice heard. Make other voices heard. Sing it like you mean it.