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John Mayer 2011 Clinic – Berklee Blogs
I can’t stress enough how important it is to write bad songs. There’s a lot of people who don’t want to finish songs because they don’t think they’re any good. Well they’re not good enough. Write it! I want you to write me the worst songs you could possible write me because you won’t write bad songs. You’re thinking they’re bad so you don’t have to finish it. That’s what I really think it is. Well it’s all right. Well, how do you know? It’s not done!
John Mayer: ‘You can’t make music as a famous person’ | The Guardian:
“It’s very, very difficult to want to give 14 hours a day [to making a record], to continue to choose music over a lifestyle,” he admits. “This is the part in a lot of people’s careers where they usually come in to the studio for four hours a day. I’m not a four-hour-a-day guy, but I can definitely feel the pull: do you wanna go into a room where you’re basically gonna excavate, emotionally, for 12 hours? Or do you wanna go to a restaurant where everybody gives you golf claps for what you’ve already done?
I have high hopes for John Mayer’s Battle Studies. It comes out this Tuesday, November 17.
Picture update coming soon - it’s been about two weeks since I put new pictures up! This will be exciting. I’ll try to get some good ones up. In the meantime, listen to John Mayer’s song “3x5.” Or, leave your own recommendation for me.
While my slides for tomorrow’s lectures are printing, I thought I would update you all (and my future self … while I write, I typically tend to think of “future Alex” reading “present Alex’s” musings) with my current musical enjoyments.
Dashboard Confessional
They’re coming to St. Thomas, and we are treated to an exclusive (St. Thomas students only), free (FREE!) concert. Intimate venue, big band, all going down about two hundred yards from where I’m typing this. The excitement builds.