The easiest and quickest way to end up with an album full of good ideas is to throw out the bad ones. The quicker you can recognize and get rid of ideas that are not working the better off you will be.
Pride causes a lot of musicians to force their ideas into a song or recording. They think that just because they had the idea or they thought something would work that it should work. This is a mistake. Do not, I repeat, do not waste your time squeezing a square peg into a round hole. If the idea does not work by the third try, move on to something else.
I have known countless musicians (myself included in the early days) who thought they were doing their idea justice by beating it into submission. Hours and even days spent pounding and polishing a single idea. That is a waste of precious time.
Ideas are a dime a dozen. The brilliance of an idea is not in how hard you work to make it fit, but in the effortlessness of its perfection.
Be quick to throw out ideas that are not working. The sooner you do, the sooner you will make room for ideas that actually do work.
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