Commit to What You Do
Tonightis the Academy Awards for movies. ButI'm still thinking about something Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl said at music's GrammyAwards two weeks ago.
I'mbiased when it comes to music, so I'm not the best judge of who should get aGrammy Award. I hate most pop musicbecause it's less about the music and more about the performer. Pop stars build followings based on beingoutrageous, and putting on concerts centered around lavish sets andshowmanship. Their music is the slicklyproduced product of careful studio tweaking.
Giveme hard-driving rock and roll. I wantlong-haired freaks who spent their high-school years in their basementpracticing chords and scribbling lyrics in spiral-bound notebooks. Spare me the glitter and the posturing.
That'swhy I was happy to see the Foo Fighters win several Grammys. What really struck me was how they made theiralbum "Wasting Light." Theymade it in a garage. Just like athousand unknown, struggling bands make theirs.
Intheir acceptance speech, Dave Grohl said, "To me this award means a lotbecause it shows that the human element of making music is what's mostimportant. Singing into a microphone,learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that's the mostimportant thing for people to do."
"It'snot about being perfect. It's not aboutsounding absolutely correct. It's notabout what goes on in a computer. It'sabout what goes on in here (he pointed to his heart) and what goes on here (hepointed to his head)."
Brilliant.
Nomatter what you do. Whether you playmusic, write books, paint houses, build furniture, teach math. Whatever. Commit to doing your best at your chosen craft. That is what's important.
Andit's a philosophy we should all take with us when we get to work on Mondaymorning.
Here's the video fromYouTube:
I'mbiased when it comes to music, so I'm not the best judge of who should get aGrammy Award. I hate most pop musicbecause it's less about the music and more about the performer. Pop stars build followings based on beingoutrageous, and putting on concerts centered around lavish sets andshowmanship. Their music is the slicklyproduced product of careful studio tweaking.
Giveme hard-driving rock and roll. I wantlong-haired freaks who spent their high-school years in their basementpracticing chords and scribbling lyrics in spiral-bound notebooks. Spare me the glitter and the posturing.
That'swhy I was happy to see the Foo Fighters win several Grammys. What really struck me was how they made theiralbum "Wasting Light." Theymade it in a garage. Just like athousand unknown, struggling bands make theirs.
Intheir acceptance speech, Dave Grohl said, "To me this award means a lotbecause it shows that the human element of making music is what's mostimportant. Singing into a microphone,learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that's the mostimportant thing for people to do."
"It'snot about being perfect. It's not aboutsounding absolutely correct. It's notabout what goes on in a computer. It'sabout what goes on in here (he pointed to his heart) and what goes on here (hepointed to his head)."
Brilliant.
Nomatter what you do. Whether you playmusic, write books, paint houses, build furniture, teach math. Whatever. Commit to doing your best at your chosen craft. That is what's important.
Andit's a philosophy we should all take with us when we get to work on Mondaymorning.
Here's the video fromYouTube:
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