Creative quest / Questlove ; with Ben Greenman.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Edition: First editionDescription: 285 pages : illustration ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780062670557
- 0062670557
- 0008286442
- 9780008286446
- 153.3/5 23
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Book | Bedford Public Library Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction | 153.35 QUE | Checked out | 05/18/2024 | 32500001751750 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2018 BY Esquire * PopSugar * The Huffington Post * Buzzfeed * Publishers Weekly
A unique new guide to creativity from Questlove--inspirations, stories, and lessons on how to live your best creative life
Questlove--musician, bandleader, designer, producer, culinary entrepreneur, professor, and all-around cultural omnivore--shares his wisdom on the topics of inspiration and originality in a one-of-a-kind guide to living your best creative life.
In Creative Quest, Questlove synthesizes all the creative philosophies, lessons, and stories he's heard from the many creators and collaborators in his life, and reflects on his own experience, to advise readers and fans on how to consider creativity and where to find it. He addresses many topics--what it means to be creative, how to find a mentor and serve as an apprentice, the wisdom of maintaining a creative network, coping with critics and the foibles of success, and the specific pitfalls of contemporary culture--all in the service of guiding admirers who have followed his career and newcomers not yet acquainted with his story.
Whether discussing his own life or channeling the lessons he's learned from forefathers such as George Clinton, collaborators like D'Angelo, or like-minded artists including Ava DuVernay, David Byrne, Björk, and others, Questlove speaks with the candor and enthusiasm that fans have come to expect. Creative Quest is many things--above all, a wise and wide-ranging conversation around the eternal mystery of creativity.
Includes index.
The spark -- Mentors and apprentices -- Getting started... -- The network -- Reduce, reuse, recycle -- Curation as cure -- The departure -- The market -- Success and failure -- No end.
"Questlove--musician, bandleader, designer, producer, culinary entrepreneur, professor, and all-around cultural omnivore--draws on a lifetime of experience to offer insights into how to build the best creative life, and how to let the best creative life build you. Questlove has worked with or around hundreds of other artists, and engaged in dialogue with them regarding the creative processes, whether in person or from an appreciation of their work: musicians like D'Angelo and Björk, filmmakers like Ava DuVernay and Mike Birbiglia, comedians, chefs, designers, writers, and more. In Creative Quest, Questlove synthesizes all the creative lessons and stories he's collected from these collaborators, mentors, and colleagues, as well as reflecting on his own experience. The result is a guide to the role of creativity in everyday life: where it comes from, where it goes, where it leads you."--Page 2 of cover.