-Be in tune.          
       Unless you want to sound out of tune... then don't. But if you do want to be in tune,
           before you even play one little tiny note, tune up your instrument. Moving on...

-Randomness
       Smile and have spontaneous conversations with people in elevators. See what happpens. I dare you.

-Mescal
       Way better than tequila. But when the bottle says "Scorpion", it means that there's a scorpion at the bottom, and if you get the last shot, well, you're going to have to eat it. Yum.

-Are you lost?          
        It happens. One second you know where you are, the next you're spinning wildly out of time and consciousness.

       I remember being in my early 20's at a session playing acoustic guitar with some truly amazing musicians whom I had looked up to for many years.

        I was put in a booth with no eye contact with anyone. Couldn't see the drummer, couldn't see the control room, the singer.....

  At a point in the song, there was a section of absolute silence. No click track to follow, no soft hi hat, no signs, nothing.

      When the section of silence came I was utterly lost, confused, and had no idea where the downbeat was. I closed my eyes and guessed at where it was I should come in.

           A few minutes later we were In the control room listening to the take. The section of silence arrived.
       What we heard was a beautiful moment of stillness, ruined by an acoustic guitar that came in too early. And loud!
          The rest of the band seemed to all come in perfectly together. But my guitar managed to destroy any telepathic brilliance in their performance at that moment. I was truly mortified.

All my heroes in this room together, and here I screwed it up!
I learned then, if I was ever in that situation again, I would just lay out .
                           STOP PLAYING.
      
                 SHUT UP AND LISTEN. And that is what you do when you are lost in space and time.

-Attitude
      Are you a drag? Do you even know? Here's something: A little while ago I noticed that every time a saw a certain musician, things would get weird. His presence was aggravating, and he seemed to transmit negativity and sadness in a cloud around him. He was a very good player, and I suspect it was merely that which kept his face clear of bruises. However, people stopped using him eventually because he was such a waste of energy. The energy to deal with an unpredictable drag. That only works for singers. Good singers. And even then not for very long.
     So people stopped using this guy and opted for other players, sometimes of lesser caliber. He is still wondering why.
     I'm not saying " Be a happy person." Be what you are. But know what you are and how it affects those around you. And if you are singer, then nevermind.

A trait that many of the people I admire have is the ability to ease tensions with a single line, and make people laugh at the right moments.
  However I've also noticed something else. Many of them are also very serious individuals. Hmmmm.... Can one be serious and funny? Hmmmm....

-Dont be afraid... Afraid of what? Have you ever sat down to play something, write something, do something and said
            "Oh crap that's awful!"..... Sure you have! ( If not , I d thot believe you. Liar! Leave now. )
The voice inside you judges, prematurely. While creating, turn off your internal editor. Learn to ignore that thing inside you that compares what you are doing with those you admire, casting sentence on your work.
        After you are done, you can go back over what you've written or recorded, and edit it. Maybe you got a line, or a chord change, or discovered a new idea. But to stop mid stream because of some awful cliche or horrible riff and the voices in your mind is to give up too soon.

       It's a fun exercise to beat yourself up, and once in a while, go ahead! Knock yourself out... Depress yourself if you want to.
But the most creative people and wonderful writers I know have not this fear of failure first in their minds when they do their thing.
And you shouldn't either. OK?