Lila Tace

August 28, 2024

The greater good is the only good.

The only intelligent way to live is to surrender because how can I — a minute drop of creation — see the bigger picture? lilatace.com

August 28, 2024

I trust life.

Life shows me what I need to see, gives me what I need to have, takes what I need to let go. lilatace.com

August 28, 2024

Instrument of creation.

Creation plays by its own drum, balancing the scales. I am but a speck on my isolated road. There’s the world’s heartbeat, but mine beats differently. I am selfish; is that where I go wrong? Art restores my connection. Art reminds me to be humble. Art is my gift of union. When there is art, there is but one collective being. And I am i...

August 27, 2024

Then, art changes the world.

Why does my art exist? Not all art is equal. Do I stand in the way of art? When there is me in the song, something is wrong. Is it about me? Art is for self-healing until the scales tip. Then, art changes the world. lilatace.com

August 27, 2024

Undo.

Play like a child. Write like a child. lilatace.com

August 25, 2024

Nowhere to hide.

'One guitar, one voice' exposes all. Where can I hide behind no arrangement, collaborators, or fancy production? I feel exposed—my state of being undeniably captured. Where to put the fear? Where to hide the heart? One naked moment of truth—my mirror, my learning tool. Complete exposure. Learn to love it. lilatace.com

August 25, 2024

Picasso and my creative process.

Today's recording session was hard. It feels like I wage a battle against myself daily. Today, I won. My goal is to create new art every day, Picasso style. Why was he the most famous painter in the world? — His creative output? Why was he so confident in his ability? — He painted until painting became his identity? What is my identity...

August 25, 2024

If somebody sees me in my songs, I've made a mistake. lilatace.com

August 25, 2024

Don't optimize your actions based on how people perceive you. Optimize your actions based on what's true to you. lilatace.com

August 22, 2024

Your catalog is your calling card. lilatace.com

August 22, 2024

Kafka.

Ich habe kein litterarisches Interesse, sondern bestehe aus Litteratur; ich bin nichts anderes und kann nichts anderes sein. I have no literary interest but consist of literature; I am nothing else, and I cannot be anything else. lilatace.com

August 21, 2024

And probably it's both.

Artists are not chosen; they choose themselves. lilatace.com

August 20, 2024

Tears in my eyes.

So You Want To Be A Writer? Charles Bukowski 1920 – 1994 if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it. if you have to sit for hours staring at your computer screen or hunched over your typewriter searching for...

August 20, 2024

The more an artist is authentic in their being, the more potent their art. Authenticity is felt. Faking is not art; it is, in fact, an act of hiding. lilatace.com

August 20, 2024

What if there's no image to uphold? lilatace.com

August 20, 2024

How does art change the world?

Hide it all in your art. Conserve it with your heart. Let it enter the world. Repeat. Living artifacts. Creative output. lilatace.com

August 18, 2024

Creative output.

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August 18, 2024

Universe.

One verse—one song. lilatace.com

August 18, 2024

Free fall.

The best artists have no walls to creation. No walls of perceptions of self and others. When they create, they free fall. Creation is dampened by, 'What will others think of me and my art?' Creation is boxed in by, 'Is this okay to share?' Creation is halted creating through identity. When all perceptions cease, creation creates itself...

August 17, 2024

Last bridge.

• I optimize for joy—not views, not money. • It’s not how it is now—it’s how it is a thousand songs from now. • I am acutely inspired by Picasso and his creative output. lilatace.com

August 17, 2024

Creating art we are creating ourselves. lilatace.com

August 16, 2024

Commandments of creativity.

• I do the work only I can do—my work, not a copy of someone else's authentic work. By being authentic, there is no competition. • Whenever there is something to capture, I capture it. When there is nothing to capture, I withhold. It's not my choice—it's what comes through me. • The potency of work comes from the state of doing. Non-do...

August 16, 2024

Life goes:

Being alive, forgetting the self, taking on foreign forms, painfully living fake lives, waking shockingly to that very fact, addressing the gunk, molding, then completely surrendering the mask, and then returning to the authentic self. From life to death to life again. Life loses itself to the projected-manifactured-fractured-fabricate...

August 14, 2024

Why are creations successful on this planet? Because they point to truth. Because they hold the key. lilatace.com

August 13, 2024

How I define excellence moving forward.

Excellence consists of 1. potency (the artist's state captured in performance) 2. excellence of songwriting (words that point to God) 3. audio quality and music production (minimal-necessary) 4. adding elements/ inventing the unessential ≠ adding value, and often takes in vast magnitude from the song & its purpose I wrote a book that i...

August 13, 2024

Spirituality =

The practice of surrender & release of layers of accumulated past (fabricated protection mechanism in response to trauma: identity structure/ false self) that results in complete alignment with life through uncovering the authentic self, your life's task, and direct experience of God. lilatace.com

August 12, 2024

What would that look like?

A poet that is in direct contact with life. Completely surrendered—a complete vessel. Not degrees away; no identity in the way. What would that look like? lilatace.com

August 11, 2024

Fabrication of an identity Shattering of the fabrication Deconstruction of the residue Emergence of the authentic self lilatace.com

August 11, 2024

And gifts don't leave the world.

People who know their souls create and exchange gifts from the same place. Gifts reached me, transformed me, uprooted me softly, and put me on the path to becoming a gift-giver myself, and gifts I'll give! Gifts I'll give from all of me in the deepest gratitude for existence, who has come before me, and who will come after me. It's gif...

August 10, 2024

Grace and holy art.

An exchange of God through different vessels. Direct transmissions, collapsing separation into wholeness. Arts' purpose—to make whole. Grace and holy art. lilatace.com