I’ve enjoyed Ben Folds’ music for a while. While I enjoy his piano playing and singing, I personally find his song writing to be particularly interesting. I think he’s developed pretty original original style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Recently I found an essay<\/a> Folds wrote and posted on his Facebook<\/a> page. His post has a lot of great advice for aspiring artists on topics of finding your own voice, hard work, dealing with criticism, and developing technique. He starts off by quoting Neal Young:<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Take my advice – Don’t Listen To Me” – Neil Young<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Whether or not your a fan of Ben Folds it’s a good read for any creative artist. I recommend you check out the full post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve enjoyed Ben Folds’ music for a while. While I enjoy his piano playing and singing, I personally find his song writing to be particularly interesting. I think he’s developed pretty original original style. Recently I found an essay Folds wrote and posted on his Facebook page. His post has a lot of great advice … Continue reading Ben Folds on Being a Musical Artist<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15350306,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1364,1366,1372,1377,1381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-composition","category-creativity","category-gigs","category-improvisation","category-music-business"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peFHCc-UO","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15350306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8190,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522\/revisions\/8190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n