Embrace What You Own

Your pallet is filled only with those colors you own.  Trying to paint yellow when you own orange is wrought with frustrating failure.  You may come close but the inauthentic nature of orange trying to be yellow will reveal a derivative poser.

How many cover bands have you heard that sound better than the original?  None.  How many songs covered by artists are better than the original? Plenty.  The difference is ownership. Try to sound like someone else and you’re damned to the shadows; Hope you like shade.

The way I see it we have two path choices that are at once parallel and convergent.  We can hurtle forthrightly and somewhat blindly into the creative fog armed with self indulgent fervor bracing for lightning strikes, or we can follow diligent courses of trial and error, weighing our contentment and loathing against its connection with an audience and ourselves.

Prepare for a long hard slog unless you like standing in hail storms with a long metal pole.