Getting discouraged.

Great idea won't transform into a song.

Can't scratch out an opening line that doesn't laugh back at me.

Time to give up and ...............

Nope. Time to dig out and refresh.

Listen. Learn. 

"Learning is the natural reward of meetings with remarkable ideas, and remarkable people."

"What artists learn from other artists is not so much history or technique (although we learn tons of that too); what we really gain from the art-making of others is courage-by-association. Depth of contact grows as fears are shared — and thereby disarmed — and this comes from embracing art as process, and artists as kindred spirits."

"To the artist, art is a verb."

"To the critic, art is a noun."

"People stop making art when they stop being students."

Quotes are from Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils and Rewards

of Artmaking, written by David Bayles & Ted Orland.