Noah Harley's guest appearances

Noah Harley

Your Creative Push

Daniel Rolnik

John Wentz

Sarah Williams

Elizabeth Sutton

Martin Wittfooth

Dan Thompson

Jennie Nash

Tom Ross

Amy Dresner

Cory Huff

Brooke Rothshank

Maria Brophy

Justin Hopkins

Nick Ulivieri

Michael Shainblum

OwlTail

Noah is a songwriter and member of the band, The Horse-Eyed Men with his brother, Dylan.  They play original disgruntled Americana and country music.  Raised by musical humans in a former candy store outside of Providence R.I., their music mixes spaghetti-western themes with cabaret, ragtime, and post-partum punk. Grave Country, their latest record, was recorded in Copenhagen on a grant from the Danish Arts Council in the summer of 2013. Full shownotes: http://yourcreativepush.com/107 In this episode, Noah discusses: -How sometimes the ideas you come up with won't make sense until a much later time. -To take the pressure off of yourself -- what you create does not have to be a masterpiece. -Just like your dreams are created, it is okay to use pieces of yourself and your daily life in your art. -The importance of having fun while creating. -Terence McKenna and the idea that nobody knows the answers. -Thinking about the possibilities of the things that didn't happen to you. -To not worry about originality, because you are so unique that you are the only person that could make the thing that you are going to make in the way that you are going to make it. -An exercise that he does as a songwriter in which he writes new lyrics to an existing song, then changes the melody. -How you have to go easy on yourself when it comes to creativity. Noah's Final Push will inspire you to start small and start steady!   Quotes: "You use the material of the world to reflect on it." "For a creative process to really be meaningful there has to be an element of searching in it.  You actually can't have all the answers." "We're all these really unique constellations.  There's no way that it won't be original, whatever it is that you make.  You're the only one who would do something like this.  There's no other creature that would make it in just the way that you would." "You have to be so gentle with yourself with creativity.  There's no rule book which determines whether a drawing is legitimate for the reason it was made." "Start small and start steady.  The Muse is fickle and she has a lot of lovers." Links mentioned: Terence McKenna - "Nobody Is Smarter Than You Are" (YouTube) Your Creative Push Episode 77: You're IMPOSSIBLY RARE.  So DO SOMETHING! (Alex Hofeldt Part 2) Connect with Noah: Bandcamp / Facebook

Noah is a songwriter and member of the band, The Horse-Eyed Men with his brother, Dylan.  They play original disgruntled Americana and country music.  Raised by musical humans in a former candy store outside of Providence R.I., their music mixes spaghetti-western themes with cabaret, ragtime, and post-partum punk. Grave Country, their latest record, was recorded in Copenhagen on a grant from the Danish Arts Council in the summer of 2013. Full shownotes: <a href="http://yourcreativepush.com/107" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://yourcreativepush.com/107</a> In this episode, Noah discusses: -How sometimes the ideas you come up with won't make sense until a much later time. -To take the pressure off of yourself -- what you create does not have to be a masterpiece. -Just like your dreams are created, it is okay to use pieces of yourself and your daily life in your art. -The importance of having fun while creating. -Terence McKenna and the idea that nobody knows the answers. -Thinking about the possibilities of the things that didn't happen to you. -To not worry about originality, because you are so unique that you are the only person that could make the thing that you are going to make in the way that you are going to make it. -An exercise that he does as a songwriter in which he writes new lyrics to an existing song, then changes the melody. -How you have to go easy on yourself when it comes to creativity. Noah's Final Push will inspire you to start small and start steady!   Quotes: "You use the material of the world to reflect on it." "For a creative process to really be meaningful there has to be an element of searching in it.  You actually can't have all the answers." "We're all these really unique constellations.  There's no way that it won't be original, whatever it is that you make.  You're the only one who would do something like this.  There's no other creature that would make it in just the way that you would." "You have to be so gentle with yourself with creativity.  There's no rule book which determines whether a drawing is legitimate for the reason it was made." "Start small and start steady.  The Muse is fickle and she has a lot of lovers." Links mentioned: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP_8n9_uj_A" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Terence McKenna - "Nobody Is Smarter Than You Are"</a> (YouTube) <a href="http://yourcreativepush.com/2016/04/interview-with-alex-hofeldt-part-2/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Your Creative Push Episode 77: You're IMPOSSIBLY RARE.  So DO SOMETHING! (Alex Hofeldt Part 2)</a> Connect with Noah: <a href="http://horseyedmen.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bandcamp</a> / <a href="https://www.facebook.com/horseeyedmen" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook</a>

107: Start small and start steady (Noah Harley Part 2)

Noah is a songwriter and member of the band, The Horse-Eyed Men with his brother, Dylan.  They play original disgruntled Americana and country music.  Raised by musical humans in a former candy store outside of Providence R.I., their music mixes spaghetti-western themes with cabaret, ragtime, and post-partum punk. Grave Country, their latest record, was recorded in Copenhagen on a grant from the Danish Arts Council in the summer of 2013. Full shownotes: http://yourcreativepush.com/noah In this episode, Noah discusses: -How The Horse-Eyed Men came to be. -The creative relationship he shares with his brother, Dylan. -The role that humor and storytelling plays in his songs. -How humor can often unlock things in people that you wouldn't normally be able to tap into. -The role that travel plays in his life. -A strategy that he uses to help him to "shake up" his orientation and to see the world in different ways. -Another trick that he uses to find new ways to explain the same thing. -How all writing is is "ass in chair." -How creating a large piece of work should be taken piece by piece. -How you can look back at the things you create and remember what mood you were in when you made it or what the weather was like on that day. Noah's Final Push will inspire you to start small and start steady!   Quotes: "For me, humor is a quick way to the heart." "Storytelling is an important element of my songs.  I'm always looking where something begins, where it goes to, and where it ends." "You can really tell as a performer when you surprise someone and they are surprised by their own laughter." "Traveling can be a really good thing to open up different paths of thinking and different parts of yourself." "We're just a weird combination of organic molecules and experiences and memories and the thing doesn't last too long.  And it's mysterious.  We don't know where it comes from and we don't know where it's going." "It's so easy to get tunnel vision and rely on a pattern that we had yesterday or the day before or the week before and not open up." "I think that with creativity, it's a kind of muscle.  It's a practice.  There are concrete small things you can do on a daily basis to open up that capacity within you." "Inspiration is like a candle that burns quickly." "All writing is is ass in chair." Links mentioned: Terence McKenna - "Nobody Is Smarter Than You Are" (YouTube) Your Creative Push Episode 77: You're IMPOSSIBLY RARE.  So DO SOMETHING! (Alex Hofeldt Part 2) Connect with Noah: Bandcamp / Facebook

Noah is a songwriter and member of the band, The Horse-Eyed Men with his brother, Dylan.  They play original disgruntled Americana and country music.  Raised by musical humans in a former candy store outside of Providence R.I., their music mixes spaghetti-western themes with cabaret, ragtime, and post-partum punk. Grave Country, their latest record, was recorded in Copenhagen on a grant from the Danish Arts Council in the summer of 2013. Full shownotes: <a href="http://yourcreativepush.com/noah" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://yourcreativepush.com/noah</a> In this episode, Noah discusses: -How The Horse-Eyed Men came to be. -The creative relationship he shares with his brother, Dylan. -The role that humor and storytelling plays in his songs. -How humor can often unlock things in people that you wouldn't normally be able to tap into. -The role that travel plays in his life. -A strategy that he uses to help him to "shake up" his orientation and to see the world in different ways. -Another trick that he uses to find new ways to explain the same thing. -How all writing is is "ass in chair." -How creating a large piece of work should be taken piece by piece. -How you can look back at the things you create and remember what mood you were in when you made it or what the weather was like on that day. Noah's Final Push will inspire you to start small and start steady!   Quotes: "For me, humor is a quick way to the heart." "Storytelling is an important element of my songs.  I'm always looking where something begins, where it goes to, and where it ends." "You can really tell as a performer when you surprise someone and they are surprised by their own laughter." "Traveling can be a really good thing to open up different paths of thinking and different parts of yourself." "We're just a weird combination of organic molecules and experiences and memories and the thing doesn't last too long.  And it's mysterious.  We don't know where it comes from and we don't know where it's going." "It's so easy to get tunnel vision and rely on a pattern that we had yesterday or the day before or the week before and not open up." "I think that with creativity, it's a kind of muscle.  It's a practice.  There are concrete small things you can do on a daily basis to open up that capacity within you." "Inspiration is like a candle that burns quickly." "All writing is is ass in chair." Links mentioned: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP_8n9_uj_A" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Terence McKenna - "Nobody Is Smarter Than You Are"</a> (YouTube) <a href="http://yourcreativepush.com/2016/04/interview-with-alex-hofeldt-part-2/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Your Creative Push Episode 77: You're IMPOSSIBLY RARE.  So DO SOMETHING! (Alex Hofeldt Part 2)</a> Connect with Noah: <a href="http://horseyedmen.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bandcamp</a> / <a href="https://www.facebook.com/horseeyedmen" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook</a>

106: OPEN UP YOUR MIND to a different orientation (Noah Harley Part 1)