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                                             June 21, 2016

From David Byrne's "How Music Works" (2012),
this is how it opens (p 13):

   I had an extremely slow-dawning insight about
   creation.  That insight is that context
   largely determines what is written, painted,
   sculpted, sung or performed.  That doesn't
   sound like much of an insight, but it's
   actually the opposite of conventional wisdom,
   which maintains that creation emerges out of
   some interior emotion, from an upwelling of
   passion or feeling, and that the creative urge
   will brook no accomodation, that it simply
   must find an outlet to be heard, read, or
   seen.

        ...

   This is the romantic notion of how creative work
   comes to be, but I think the path of creation is
   almost 180 [degrees] from this model.


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