What The Freak?

WTF #031 Balancing Game: Music, Art & Business with Cori Rios

Episode Summary

Cori Rios is a musician, entrepreneur and desert dweller. He joins Nathan for this week's episode of What The Freak for a conversation about pursuing a creative profession over a conventional one and funding your life as an artist, and dive deep into their individual artistic expressions. Does an artist have to remain in the ‘tortured artist’ role in order to make great art? Who or what is that creates the art? Is it something larger than us? Tune in to this weeks episode to hear more!

Episode Notes

Cori Rios is a musician, entrepreneur and desert dweller. He joins Nathan for this week's episode of What The Freak for a conversation about pursuing a creative profession over a conventional one and funding your life as an artist, and dive deep into their individual artistic expressions. Does an artist have to remain in the ‘tortured artist’ role in order to make great art? Who or what is that creates the art? Is it something larger than us? Tune in to this weeks episode to hear more! 

 

5:00 You never know which snowball is going to start the avalanche.

13:00 Expectations can kind of ruin experiences

20:00 Do I have to be unhappy for the rest of my life to continue to make great art?

31:00 What is that that creates art? 

40:00 Left brain or right brain?

49:00 You can’t be an expert at everything.

 

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