Just a copywriter and brand strategist that writes poems by candlelight.
denim... and catchy headlines.
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity. - Charles Mingus
The power of wordplay. Give me any word and I can make an acronym out of it. I dare you.
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The Low End Theory - A Tribe Called Quest
Jonathan’s CreativeMornings activity
Justice is a process, it's not necessarily an outcome...becoming sensitive of things we don't know about and we haven't experienced.
Go where the music takes you.
Learn to play with others and not just people who think like you.
Miles Davis said that it takes a long time to learn how to play like yourself.
The instrument is you. Developing your own voice, developing your own sense of the world, interrogating what you experienced and what you think.
Going to the dictionary for words is a little like getting nutrition advice from the FDA... Words come from the community, they come from experience, they come from emotion.
Words...is not just language. This is part of being conscious, human, and whole.
Words are like these little ecosystems.
Jazz is the legacy of the African-American community.
Jazz is a process
When you watch [Muhammed] Ali you learn more than just boxing...you learn about America.
Life is short, but it feels long when you're going through it.
Just go and do stuff.
Let's see what happens - I think it's the best way to go. What would I have to lose?
What is evident to some people is a revelation to others.
I should have invested more in relationships and people...it's not who you know but it's what you get exposed to. Everybody is interesting, everybody has something that you can learn from.
My favourite quote from Howard [Gossage] is that nobody reads ads, people read things that interest them.
If you work in a creative industry, you have to understand there's a difference [between creativity and creating value]. I can come up with the most clever headline known to man but if it doesn't sell, we have a problem...my business is creating value, not being creative.
This is how I see creativity. You have to have a beginner's mindset, even with stuff that you do know, and learn how stuff works.
The more you put in, the more diverse it is...the more rich your output will be.