Our band used to write songs together organically, but since we started getting real gigs, we've each become precious about our individual parts and rehearsals feel more like negotiations than creative sessions. The music is getting safer and less surprising.
More people experience this than they realize.
External validation can calcify the very spontaneity that created the work worthy of validation.
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