by Ed Bell | Sep 27, 2018 | Inspiration, The Creative Habit
If you’ve ever said “But today’s music sucks”, you wouldn’t be the first and you won’t be the last. There are basically two ways of looking at this. One: maybe you’re right. Maybe music today is far more about image and marketing than music. Maybe music today is more...
by Ed Bell | May 24, 2018 | Inspiration, Lyric Tools, Music Tools
Songs prompts, oh, song prompts. If I’m honest, I have mixed feelings. I don’t really do writing by numbers. I get nervous around anything for songwriters that sounds like spoon-feeding. And I think the most important thing a songwriter – well, anyone –...
by Ed Bell | Jan 25, 2018 | Inspiration, The Creative Habit
Be restless. Dream big. Want more. Go new places. Meet new people. Try new things. Don’t settle. Life is too short not to. Now don’t get me wrong. Dreams are earned. Dreams are fought for. They’re not wishes granted by some motherfucking genie in a bottle. The...
by Ed Bell | Jan 11, 2018 | Music Tools, The Creative Habit
When I was 17, I ordered a copy of Beethoven’s Complete String Quartets from Amazon. Amazon was pretty new back then, and I remember opening the packaging and pulling out this thick blue book and thinking how cool it was to own a big chunk of history. It was the first...
by Ed Bell | Feb 24, 2016 | Inspiration, The Creative Habit
When I was sixteen I thought I’d be a doctor. I say I thought. I didn’t really know. I figured you had to decide something, I was good at science at school, my parents are both medical. So I said ‘why not be that’. I’m glad it didn’t work out that way. I’m glad I...
