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This phrase came into my head I'd never heard before, but it popped in. "Power of yielding". I looked it up and A.I. told me a number of things, such as its relation to Christian Mysticism.

I might start making music again, but I need a good name for my project.

Justice already does essentially what I want to do musically with my own theme: the cross imagery. They were from me and made by me, and I can recreate their own music, within my limitations because I don't have access to music gear.

I might go on a spree and download as many free or emulatable hardware synthesizers as I can, and go back into music . . . "As I Lay Dying".

I always thought I could just become a big music star, but no, it's much harder than that. You really just have to be selected by the stars.

I once had this idea of "replying" to Daft Punk in an alien form, like a musical project that is in reply to Daft Punk's song "Contact", which is about alien contact. 

Now I find the cosmic and comic satirical idea of aliens completely cringe.

This is like Alan Parsons Project.

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I may not make music at all. It's too much effort for too little gain. Music has already been "figured out". All music has already essentially been made, and A.I. ruins it even more.

There's nothing more to make because no one listens. I could make a modern-day great track like Bob Dylan's "Tryin' to Get to Heaven", and no one would listen.

Music is dead. They don't listen to the lyrics or the message; they just go deep into the "kill or be killed" mental illness message of most modern music and off themselves by being too reckless.

There is also a balance between recklessness and cowardice. They are on a spectrum. Heroism is found in the middle of recklessness and cowardice. This is from Aristotle's point-of-view. It's called Mesotes. Not too much and not too little. The optimal effort, the optimal aggression, the optimal dispersion, the optimal diffusion, the optimal force of the power of will, etc.

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A mental process one must go through upon receiving negativity or neglect is forcing oneself to force through those things through sheer power of will. You have to convince yourself you're as great as you imagine. If you cannot sing the high note, you have to imagine it first. You cannot live in the material limitation.

If you can imagine it, it is possible; therefore, if you can imagine a song or music, you can create it, but you are limited by your financial or myopic limitations, such as when you don't know a certain plugin or program exists that would make your music sound exactly the way you wanted.

All musicians in modern times are limited by what is available on the market, but even more egregious than that, they are limited by lack of knowledge to what is available online to be purchased due to so many available options.

The way I thought of it . . . was by getting as many free plugins and programs as I could, and making music that way.

A much simpler option to get into music is simply using the purest and simplest program imaginable: GarageBand, and making music with a guitar plugged straight in with a USB interface.

You can send a message through lyrics and with music, but almost nobody will listen.

To make your own music without being discouraged, one must transcend what others tell you, and simply make it from your soul or spirit, i.e. what you want to hear and what you want to be made; otherwise, people will not listen or they will try to tear you down.

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Daft Punk, for example, made quite essentially, the entire Human After All album with a drum machine, guitars, and a Digitech Whammy Pedal. They made that entire album with basic materials, but they wrote their music in such a way as to combine it with their previous existing material in a creative process for live albums. They are not "great musicians" in the classical sense, but they have the mind for it. They can imagine the music in their head, the melodies and the harmonies, and recreate what they intended to make.

A lot of music gets bogged down in trying to make something new, but rarely anymore does it send a message. Most musicians today just make pop hits that come out and fall down like Humpty Dumpty.

The most important part of being a musician is this: being able to imagine the music you want to create. It is not about experimenting or messing around, but being able to hear in your head the very music you want to put out through the innately limited quotients of music gear and music programs.

My name is Dylan Smith, I live in Kansas, I descend from King David's line, and yes, I am a genius, but no one gives me credit for anything.