Anthony Knotts
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Anthony Knotts
@AC_Knotts
Christian, father, husband, friend, pastor, musician, and songwriter. Psalm 20:7
Orion, MI Katılım Eylül 2016
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@paulbaloche Sometimes it's just letting those thoughts flow from your heart, through your hands, and right on out to God
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Songwriting 101
Billy Oppenheimer@bpoppenheimer
This is one of the greatest displays of the creative process I've seen. It perfectly demonstrates something known as the "Creativity Faucet." When you go to the studio, John Mayer was asked, what do you do to generate ideas? “Well, I don’t always do it,” he admitted, “because it requires a stupid bravery all the time.” He strums a couple chords without singing. A nice melody begins to form—“you can sit here all day [doing this] and go, ‘Okay, maybe that’s something.'” “But if you don’t go,” and then he improvises vocals, “Sunlights beating on the corner of the walls / and I’m a Mr. know-it-all / heaven calls / get yourself right / get yourself right,” he stops playing, raises his finger to his mouth, and explains, “if you’re not ouija boarding immediately, you’re wasting time.” “You just stare at the corner of the wall,” he says, before he improvises some more, “Stare at the corner of the wall / try to get it going on / but I can’t sometimes / you just keep going 'til you get something / maybe I’m a little bit shy / maybe someday I’ll tell you why,” he stops singing, “you gotta keep forcing it, forcing it, forcing it.” “It doesn’t matter [what comes out of your mouth]...You gotta get fearless, fearless, fearless, fearless…It’s hard to do.” Takeaway 1: In the clip, we see John Mayer's ability to generate vocals steadily increase. It's a perfect display of what Julian Shapiro—who (among other things) is incredible at deconstructing how things like creativity work—calls the “Creativity Faucet.” Essentially, creativity works like “a backed-up pipe of water,” Shapiro writes. “The first mile is packed with wastewater. This wastewater must be emptied before the clear water arrives.” At the beginning of a creative session, almost always, bad ideas come out of the faucet first. The John Mayers of the world have the discipline and “a stupid bravery,” as Mayer said, to get through the backed-up pipe of bad ideas, to empty the wastewater, to “just keep going 'til you get something,” as he sang. Takeaway 2: To let out bad ideas, to empty the waste water, Mayer said, you have to “get fearless, fearless, fearless.” In another interview, Mayer was asked how he defines writer’s block. “Writer’s block,” he said, “is when the two people inside of you—the writer and the reader—when the reader doesn’t love the writer. Writer’s block is not a failure to write. It is a failure to catch the feedback loop of enjoying what you’re seeing and wanting to contribute more to it.” A creative block is not a failure to create. It is a failure to accept that you must empty a lot of bad ideas before good ideas can flow. It is a failure to get fearless, fearless, fearless, fearless. - - - “You gotta keep forcing it, forcing it, forcing it...You gotta get fearless, fearless, fearless, fearless.” — John Mayer Follow @bpoppenheimer for more content like this!
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@Cathaoir1 I have a print of Flooded Recollection and absolutely love it My friend! How can I get one of your Ixalan Negate lithos to add to my collection?
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Hanging out with my favorite little one today! Daddy/Daughter selfish!
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@Cathaoir1 @dvdmtg @Cathaoir1 you are a truly talented artist, my friend. My favorites from you include the ixalan Negate art and Flood of Recollection!
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What an incredible opportunity to lead worship at Wolverine Christian Service Camp in Columbiaville MI these past two weeks, and see young people giving their lives to Jesus. God is SO SO good.
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Hey All! FINALLY, I'm back to a place where I can release some new music for y'all! If you are a CCLI user, you can find this song on their SongSelect service later this week! (song #7218392)
Always There (Acoustic Version) youtu.be/4PHtcR7LGTw via @YouTube
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@paulbaloche Such a simple and yet powerful piece of worship music! Thanks Paul!
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“What a Good God” #BrentonBrown instagram.com/reel/Cp1eq4agz…
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VERY blessed today! I can finally include chord sheets and sound clips with the songs I have registered with CCLI's SongSelect service! It is an awesome privilege and responsibility to write songs for the body of Christ!
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Prayers out there for everybody's worship services this morning! May the Lord be praised in every house of worship!
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@paulbaloche Excited to hear what God has put on your heart this year brother!
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