I've been reading the book, Music, by Andrew Zuckerman. Fantastic book if you get a chance to take a look, especially if you're an artist of any type. Really cool to see how we connect to the same thing, that being music, so differently and yet so similarly. That's the beauty of being an individual and allowing the creativity that is uniquely inside of you to come out.
That's why I find it so interesting...or uninteresting, when you hear and see copy cat artists that are piggy backing off of something that has already been done. I understand the whole idea of not reinventing the wheel, but come on... We're all so uniquely gifted, that's something to tap into. At the same time, being an artist, I understand that fear of actually showing the "real you" in your work and how unsettling that can be. Sometimes the "real you" isn't what the mainstream is doing, and that can be a hard thing to go against. But then there's nothing more liberating than letting your truth come out, regardless of how it's received.
Be true to who you are, accept who you are and enjoy the power that comes from that. So easy to type it out for you, not always so easy to live it...but I'll do my best.
Be blessed.
