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06-14-2009, 12:58 PM
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Didn't know where to put this. Quentin Tarantino is a huge inspiration to me. His movies are so crazy... after seeing a few I wanted to write music like his movies; crazy, inventive, fun. Any others?
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06-14-2009, 01:03 PM
| | | | Many of my inspirations are non musicians. |
06-14-2009, 01:32 PM
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Originally Posted by cnltb Many of my inspirations are non musicians. | Such as..?
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06-14-2009, 01:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Toronto, Canada | | Yes I am inspired by non-musicians. - Henry Moore's Sculptures (I wrote a piece based on one of his public artworks in Toronto as my final composition project in University)
- Poetry (particularly one friend of mine who writes the best songs, I have set two to music with her permission)
- Watching my dogs play in the park
Limiting who or what inspires me limits my voice...
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06-14-2009, 01:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Fairfax, VA | | | I try to play bass the way Alex Ovechkin (Washington Capitals) plays hockey!!!
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06-14-2009, 02:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Stickk Such as..? | Joan Miros' blue.
Hieronymous Boschs' paintings.
Dürers' pictures.
Franz Kafkas' stories ,Primo Levis stories ( and then some)
Various films ( amongst them are "in the soup", "intacto", and "lovers of the arctic circle" and but there are many more)
Alfred Hitchcocks work
Charles Chaplin
Sunshine
Rain
Good food
Bad food
Smells
The unexpected
Life
Anything and Anyone can be an inspiration.
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06-14-2009, 03:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Long Island, NY | | | quite often, but i cant seem to think of any examples off hand.
anyone who legitimately has a free mind, and does things differntly, the way they want too. |
06-14-2009, 09:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Western Pennsylvania | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Joe Murray I try to play bass the way Alex Ovechkin (Washington Capitals) plays hockey!!! | Being from around Pittsburgh I have to smirk at this, you like playing badly?  I really don't care at all about sports. |
06-14-2009, 09:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Stickk Didn't know where to put this. Quentin Tarantino is a huge inspiration to me. His movies are so crazy... after seeing a few I wanted to write music like his movies; crazy, inventive, fun. Any others? | Leo Fender.
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06-14-2009, 09:24 PM
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06-14-2009, 09:29 PM
| | | | Gene Kranz
Roger Penske
Frank Lloyd Wright
Vincent Van Gogh
Richard Pryor
(to name a few)
They make me want to be better at anything/everything I do. If I could do anything half as good as how they did their thing... |
06-14-2009, 10:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Northeast South Dakota | | | Van Gogh
Picasso
Lewis Carroll
Ansel Adams
My Kids
Running
The mountains
Sunsets
Sunrises (though I don't see very many)
Golfing
I try to be inspired by everything that comes my way. It keeps me young, excited and wanting to learn more, play more, do more. |
06-14-2009, 10:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Pittsburgh, PA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by DerHoggz Being from around Pittsburgh I have to smirk at this, you like playing badly? I really don't care at all about sports. | My thought was plays great until the last song, plays in outstanding time through that song with inventive licks, pushing the envelope and then flubs the last note... I kid, though, he's a great player.
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06-14-2009, 10:26 PM
| | | | Jan Švankmajer films
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06-15-2009, 08:40 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: New York City | | | My compositions and general musical aesthetic have been inspired by:
Italo Calvino (fiction)
ee cummings (poetry)
Robert Smithson (sculpture/environmental art)
Elizabeth Streb (dance/movement)
Alexander Calder (mobil)
Frank Lloyd Wright (architecture)
Daniel Dennet (cognitive sciences/philosophy)
Arguably I've also been inspired by Woody Allen, S.E.Hinton, and the editors of The National Lampoon, seeing as I spent so many of my formative years reading their works. |
06-15-2009, 12:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Hamilton, Ontario Canada | | | Everything inspires me. I remember a quote by John Cage where he said something like "Whenever I hear something that I hate, I try to figure out why I hate it, and than I figure out a way to love it. Than there's a bit less hate in the world and more love, and the world is much more beautiful without hate". Not the exact quote, but it goes along those lines.
I try to apply that sort of philosophy to everything in life, and it really has given me a limitless well to draw inspiration from.
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