so glad that artists as famous as Paul McCartney are speaking out.
Thanks highplainsdem...
...you're too kind.
Not being "kind" - being honest. I don't know how anyone could look at (or listen to) those samples of your work and not be struck by the talent and creativity.
Who knows how things would have gone if I had not dropped out of art school in the mid-70s?
I couldn't wait to get out of Chicago and get to Los Angeles!
I don't think you needed more years of art school. You were pulled in different artistic directions in LA, but were creative in those, too.
"Who knows how things would have gone?" can be a painful question. Especially when you've been told how much talent you have, and had some success and recognition (that's quite a list of films!), and still didn't get as much recognition and success as others believed you should have had. Life can throw monkey wrenches in plans. It might be a necessary day job, like yours, that leaves limited time and energy for creative pursuits. It might be something like caregiving, which I discovered could be 24/7, exhausting, and a much longer-term necessity than expected.
You've probably heard lots of such stories in LA. Same with New York, where I saw what my two actress-singer-dancer roommates went through. Art is so important, but it can be very hard.
And now AI will make it much harder, if people don't reject AI as a substitute for real art. If they fall into the trap of letting billionaire tech bros and venture capitalists rip off our culture and sell it back to us via AI.
But there's still some hope.
And that goes for everyone who's creative, no matter their age.
Even if you're now saying you "used to do art" you can always reactivate those skills and creativity. I hope you will.
The world can always use more real art, from real artists.
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