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  • SirSamueltoguitarsexperience the fret
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    9 days ago

    Jesus dude, who pissed in your Cheerios?

    It’s really a wonder that I haven’t dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

    • Anne Frank

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    Except the point Ira is making is that your tastes are good. He’s trying to build up the listener. I understand your perspective, and you’d be right if he was saying “My tastes are good”, in an exclusionary way

    But he’s not. He’s saying “You’re not happy with your work because you know what sounds good and this isn’t it. But it will be. Keep going.”

    And I think that’s pretty goddamned positive


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    Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you… It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.

    Ira Glass




  • Just like killing an asshole, I don’t think it’s right, I just understand why it was done (and low-key agree tbh)

    Basically

    • Is it wrong? Yes
    • So I understand why? Yes
    • Would I do that in their shoes? Maybe
    • Does that make me a hypocrite? Probably, I do lots of wrong things