You Have An Idea But You're Being Told You Can't Do It That Way.

 When someone is blessed with an original idea or a new way of doing something, they often discover an abundance of advice being offered to them from so called "experts" with various levels of expertise (or none at all) on  the project that person is working on.
 These sages often explain that "you can't do it that way" or "that's not the way to do it" and "it's never been done successfully like that before.
 Well that is true for anything original. There is no ready made market for something that hasn't been seen before.
That doesn't mean there isn't a need for it or people won't  welcome it once they become familiar with it.
Original doesn't always mean success however. Nor does the tried and true.
Talent, hard work and a product that's excellent can still fail.  Cheap, shoddy and lazy can succeed.
Life is unpredictable. So if you're inspired to do something you might as well do it the way you want.
All anyone can do is give something there best effort. The rest is in God's hands.
Before you give yourself over to the advice of "experts" here is a long list of quotes from some of them in the past.
Fortunately someone believed in what they were doing enough not to listen to them either.

• "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." -- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.
• "Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and weigh only 1.5 tons." -- Popular Mechanics, 1949
• "I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year." -- The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957.
• "But what...is it good for?" -- Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.
• "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." -- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977.
• "640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Attributed to Bill Gates, 1981, but believed to be an urban legend.
• "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." -- Western Union internal memo, 1876.
• "The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys." -- Sir William Preece, chief engineer of the British Post Office, 1876.
• "The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" -- David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.
• "While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility." -- Lee DeForest, inventor.
• "The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible." -- A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)
• "Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" -- H. M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.
• "I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper." -- Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading role in "Gone With the Wind."
• "A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make." -- Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies.
• "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." -- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.
• "Radio has no future. Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. X-rays will prove to be a hoax." -- William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, British scientist, 1899.
• "So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'" -- Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and HP interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer.
• "If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this." -- Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M "Post-It" Notepads.
• "It will be years -- not in my time -- before a woman will become Prime Minister." -- Margaret Thatcher, 1974.
• "I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious sensibilities of anyone." -- Charles Darwin, The Origin Of Species, 1869.
• "With over 50 foreign cars already on sale here, the Japanese auto industry isn't likely to carve out a big slice of the U.S. market." -- Business Week, August 2, 1968.
• "That Professor Goddard with his 'chair' in Clark College and the countenancing of the Smithsonian Institution does not know the relation of action to reaction, and of the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react--to say that would be absurd. Of course, he only seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools." -- 1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work. The remark was retracted in the July 17, 1969 issue.
• "You want to have consistent and uniform muscle development across all of your muscles? It can't be done. It's just a fact of life. You just have to accept inconsistent muscle development as an unalterable condition of weight training." -- Response to Arthur Jones, who solved the "unsolvable" problem by inventing Nautilus.
• "Ours has been the first, and doubtless to be the last, to visit this profitless locality." -- Lt. Joseph Ives, after visiting the Grand Canyon in 1861.
• "Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy." -- Workers whom Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859.
• "Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." -- Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929.
• "There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will." -- Albert Einstein, 1932.
• "The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives." -- Admiral William Leahy, U.S. Atomic Bomb Project.
• "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." -- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.
• "There will never be a bigger plane built." -- A Boeing engineer, after the first flight of the 247, a twin engine plane that holds ten people.
• "Everything that can be invented has been invented." -- Attributed to Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899, but known to be an urban legend.
• "Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction." -- Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872.
• "The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon." -- Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873.

My Songs Suck!

My songs suck!
Well, at least half of them do.
If you are familiar with the songs I write and record then you probably have one of these two thoughts about my statement.
"No they don't" or "What do you mean only half of them suck?"

My relationship with my songs remind me of High School infatuations.
At first a song I've created  seems wonderful, beautiful, perfect, I want to show her off.
I know she has flaws. Who doesn't?
But she mine and I want the world to see her.
Then after a short time the flaws seem bigger. That screeching voice. Those words. That guitar. (What can I say, it is an imperfect analogy.)
So that's when we break up. Or in this case I pull the song off the internet.

If you have ever gone to one of the web pages that  feature my music, you may notice songs come and go quite often.
If you notice a song disappear, then that usually means we had a break-up.
Occasionally I try to fix it up and bring it back.
It usually doesn't work.
No matter how much I dress it up It's still a pig in a fancy outfit to me.
And so I drop it again.

Currently (as I write this) there are 8 songs on my music player at the Big Dawg Music Mafia website.(http://www.bigdawgmusicmafia.com/profile/TomBalistreri369)
The first three songs I really like. In fact you could call it love. We're going steady. I'm engaged with them. I don't even care if no one else in the world likes them. They've got me hooked.
The fourth song also has my interest. Despite the screeching voice. Although over time that flaw could get to me.
The rest of the songs are like that date you bring home and your parents and your friends like her and say nice things about her.
So I'm keeping them around for now. But my eye is wandering.

So let me sum this up.
8  out of 20 original songs I have published in the past year still remain.
I love 3 of them and am infatuated with the  4th.
The rest are still around because friends said nice things about them but I'll probably dump them when I have something new.
I'm fickle.
Just a  final point.
This was an analogy. In real life I'm married and don't have a wandering eye. I'm settled.

Narrow Road

This is my latest song that I wrote and recorded. I put a little video together to go along with it. 

I hope you enjoy it.

My Freedom

Here is a song I wrote that seemed appropriate on this day.

Freedom Is Not Safe

 
Here are two canaries.
The first one is safe and secure.
It's food is brought to it.
It's cage is cleaned every other day.
It is given fresh water.
The cat can't get near it.
As long as it pleases its master,
it has two square feet of worry free living.

The second canary lives on its own.
It must fend for itself.
It must find its own food and water.
It must protect itself from predators.
Its life is much harder, with no guarantees.
It only has the whole world to fly in.

Open the cage and a window and the wild canary is unlikely to fly into the cage.
The  "safe" canary will probably fly out the window never to be seen again.

The price of safety in this world is often the loss of freedom
If one wishes to be free then expect risks.
Even danger.
But you will have the whole world to potentially fly in.



 

Light In The Darkness

One of my latest songs and videos. I hope you enjoy it.

Psalm 23 Illistrated.