This short YouTube excerpt (single-speaker monologue) advises new artists to return to school and study history and education. The speaker argues that no idea is entirely new and that by learning from and reworking the past—rather than fearing it—artists can reinvent their work and 'break through.' Emphasis is placed on applying historical lessons to contemporary practice.
When you want to break as a new artist, you got to go back to school. Because school teaches you the history, right? Education teaches you the history. Because that's how we learn and figure out. Can I take something from the history? Apply it to the past? Like you said, no idea is new. History repeats itself. How can we take what has already happened and reinvent it and break through? Don't be afraid of history. Don't be afraid of history.
