By "information," might you mean "precedents?" People do fall back on what they already know and know how to do. However, the other side of that coin is picking-up new skill and insight along the way; one's creativity can use one's precedents as foundations and transcend them.

 

Wow, congrats foster, you managed to fool people for 4 months this time before you pulled out your old staple topic and showed your hand.

 

I did not understand. Are you talking to me? who or what is foster?

 

I'm Foster and so is my wife!

 

Foster has lost his parents
He's in the nuthouse once again and he can't find his parents the foster parents

 

This is really good analogy that fits a decent proportion of people who search and write purely for the sake of creativity. I know you would allow for exceptions to any rule having read many of your posts even though this on the surface does not seem to allow for it.
Two exceptions being - People who write purely for the sake of creating or finding something new , can also choose to write commercially to survive (if they also have that skill), or they choose to not care whether people like what they write and have no intention of joining the academic field.

Also while it seems like a life of struggle and lack of balance, it also comes down to the goals we each set for ourselves and whether those goals will facilitate balance or not. Musicians have a very bad habit of becoming a hamster on a wheel without being aware of it. Like that bad quote inaccurately associated to Einstein, 'Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result'.

 

experience-obtained knowledge or reading/watching some boring shit?

of course bloating yourself with some dinosaur rules destroys creativity

 

Yes, all the knowledge made Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Stockhausen, Beatles, King Crimson, Toto, Morricone, Miller, Pastorius, Zawinul, Goodman, Davis, Queen and so on and on and on and on... sooooo uncreative and stale.

Really?

I think, that this kind of made up "questions" always, always come from people that are bad or lazy (or both) musicians. Harsh but true. This "question" is as BS as BS can be BS. Sorry, but I get angry with this kind of... !"§$%&/()=?

 

I have often thought of a situation that may seem absurd to you.
What would happen if a person was locked in a cave for his whole life and had only one instrument, for example, a guitar. That's all he has, the guitar (surely he would have water and how to feed himself, etc. It's something hypothetical).
And he would be trapped there for, I don't know, 20 to 30 years. Then someone by accident discovers that the person is there in that cave.
What do you think would happen? This person would learn to play the guitar? he would know the notes? the chords? he would have found a totally different music than the one we know? In this hypothetical situation, there is no external music information for him to have as a reference.

 

Oh my! you are a mind reader! that's me! thanks for your input!

 

If things go well, he figures it all out himself.
He plays like Jimmy Hendrix and can do everything a studied guitarist can do.

He's even a little more creative.
When things are bad, he builds a fire with his guitar and warms himself with it.

 

This question has been on my mind for the past week.
What I know is this; The more I know, the more i understand I know nothing.
Shit.
that's the current status quo.