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Jun 04, 2009
» David Longstreth of the Dirty Projectors on songwriting
Quotes from a great NYTimes profile.
On work and ideas:The thing that transforms something from being an idea to being a physical reality is work….You can have outlandish ideas, but if you don’t work at them, they just remain outlandish ideas. Anyone can have an idea. Work is transformative.On the merits of being an amateur:
The one thing I’ve kept most with me from when I was obsessed with K Records in high school and college is to maintain the spirit of an amateur, someone who is doing it for a love rather than out of a sense of expertise. The idea that music is free, that it’s not the province of some technician, be it Milton Babbitt or Jimmy Page.On play and cut-up style lyric writing:
many of the songs grew out of playful experiments. For the lyrics to “Stillness Is the Move” Mr. Longstreth had Ms. Coffman watch the Wim Wenders film “Wings of Desire” and write down lines of dialogue that intrigued her; other lyrics were drawn from an Excel spreadsheet of hundreds of pop clichés.
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Dec 09, 2008
» Daily Routines
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Oct 31, 2008
Emmanuel Guibert draws with water. Amazing. He illustrated the entirety of Alan’s War with this technique.
On a sidenote — I love how Youtube transforms drawing into a performance art.
Jul 10, 2008
…when one draws from direct observation, one is choosing what to leave in, what to leave out and even reconstructing elements so that the drawing will “read” better. When one draws from a photograph, the space is flattened, the camera has already selected the lines, shapes, and forms for you. When you are outside drawing a tree, YOU are choosing what is in focus, what is not—there is an exchange between subject and viewer. That is the art.
Mar 07, 2008
I don’t crosshatch. I don’t like to put a line through another line.

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