{"id":558,"date":"2008-06-30T09:01:08","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T09:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/music-that-inspires-my-writing\/"},"modified":"2008-06-30T09:01:08","modified_gmt":"2008-06-30T09:01:08","slug":"music-that-inspires-my-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/music-that-inspires-my-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Music That Inspires My Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I write I need music flowing through my ears, to my heart and then to my head.  For example, I listened to a lot of jazz when I wrote Waking Up in Corporate America.  Some have told me that silence works best whey they write, but for me music is the needed writing soundtrack.<\/P>
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The following is a list of some music (artists, individual compositions and complete volumes) that I have used to make my writing soundtrack inspiring:<\/P><\/p>\n

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  1. Pat Metheny – just about anything he does, but especially his work on movie soundtracks\n
  2. Miles Davis – Miles Ahead, Sketches of Spain and Kind of Blue\n
  3. Michael Franks – Abandoned Garden\n
  4. David Sanborn – Closer\n
  5. Peter Gabriel – Us\n
  6. Bill Evans – Sunday at the Village Vanguard and Waltz for Debby\n
  7. John McLauglin – Brise De Coeur\n
  8. Sting – A Thousand Years, The Book of My Life, and the soundtrack to Leaving Las Vegas\n
  9. Puccini- Madame Butterfly\n
  10. Larry Carlton – Emotions Wound Us So and For Love Alone <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    When I write I need music flowing through my ears, to my heart and then to my head.  For example, I listened to a lot of jazz when I wrote Waking Up in Corporate America.  Some have told me that silence works best whey they write, but for me music is the needed writing soundtrack.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1050,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coaching","category-cool-things","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}