"""" Quotes """"

I must feel like writing tonight. Actually, i was just checking over my site, and started reading my "famous quotes" on the home page (if you click the "next quote" button, it'll scroll thru about 60 of them randomly). I hand picked all of them for specific reasons, and they all mean quite a bit to me. Some inspire me, some keep me grounded, a few remind me to work hard and stay focused and many of them remind me why i love music. I am exceptionally fortunate to have acheived the things i have, so it might surprise you to learn that I am looking at 2005 as a "career building" year. Honestly. 2004 was an incredible year for me, no doubt about it, but i'm using this year to really try to branch out even more. Just you wait and see what i've got brewing. Suffice it to say that I am far from content with my current place in the music industry. I want more and i'm going to get it. simple as that.
One of my favorite quotes from my list is from Michelangelo ........ "i saw the angel in the marble and carved until i set him free"

Isnt that what we're all trying to do here? First a vision of a song pops into your head, maybe a few words, a phrase, a verse and off you go. From that moment of inspiration on, your trying to unlock your idea, carve it out until it sounds like a finished song. I often do alot of carving while i mix. Some chisellling here and there, a couple whacks with a sledgehammer, and alot of fine brush strokes until everything sounds just right, whatever "right" sounds like. Look a the clock, time to go do some more carving before the night's over.
-Ken