Mark Applebaum quotes

I allow my creativity to push me in directions that are simply interesting to me and I don’t worry about the likeness of the result to some notion - some paradigm - of what music composition is supposed to be.
-- Mark Applebaum

#Creativity #Interesting #Worry

Is it music? ... This is not the important question. The important question is, is it interesting?
-- Mark Applebaum

#Motivation #Inspiration #Interesting

In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.

No I or individual is better than the team. I've scored no goals just on my own. Every goal I've ever scored has been because of someone else on my team, their excellence, their bravery. And I'm kind of the end product of a collection of a really good vibe, and feeling, and creativity on the field.

Apparently one impression we are making... is that creativeness consists of lightning striking you on the head in one great glorious moment.

Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation, health and self-fulfillment... the values that self-actualizers appreciate include truth, creativity, beauty, goodness, wholeness, aliveness, uniqueness, justice, simplicity, and self-sufficiency.

The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.

In considering any new subject, there is frequently a tendency, first, to overrate what we find to be already interesting or remarkable; and, secondly, by a sort of natural reaction, to undervalue the true state of the case, when we do discover that our notions have surpassed those that were really tenable

Memory only becomes interesting through its struggle with forgetfulness.

[Once plans for each eventuality are resolved, further] Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.

I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my own ass.

Every time we interact with another person at work, we have a choice to make: do we try to claim as much value as we can, or contribute value without worrying about what we receive in return?