[intothenight]

Confidence.

The hip write music the way they feel it should sound, and write lyrics as they please. . put them together, and confidently call it a song. They don't try and please the listener. . they just put out their own music for what it is. . they then let the listeners take care of the rest.

I don't know if I am making sense here or not to anybody. . but this is one of the reasons I think none of their albums really sound too much alike. . each one is a product of the bands writing at the current time. . and at no time later did the band try to look back and reproduce the success of a previous album for the sake of money.

The hip have confidence in what they do; confidence is always appealing.

[Stephen Dame]

You're right. They express themselves, and aren't concerned with the pop/pap "sales" aspect of it all. They just resign themselves to the music... here it is, there it goes, that's us, what's next?

It was said best and first of Willie Nelson, but it applies to the boys as well: People wish they could 'not give a $*it' as much as The Hip 'don't give a $*it"

Cool, precisely because they're worrying about so much more than trying to be cool.

[Kevala]

Service is joy; service is the source and goal of any thinking human’s relationship with the rest of humanity. The most evolved humans have always known that true joy comes from giving. They live for others; their thought is for others; there is nothing they would not do to further the growth of others. They have realized this one truth: there is no true happiness in growth for oneself alone; all true growth is always rooted in compassion.

Service is giving back the gift of our life to the Source of our life. Service is a reciprocal relationship between our self and the rest of humanity. True service is love made manifest; service relieves the suffering of everyone of the Earth by healing the root of all suffering, the mistaken belief in separation. True service is always a gift of love; it is never ego-based; it seeks nothing, it gives freely to all. Service is a natural response to the recognition that all of life is interconnected. We are all part of each other; everyone is an out-picturing of everyone else; when one sees this clearly, one dedicates one’s life to healing all the sundered and scattered parts of ourselves.

A wise person once said, “Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand, and I will move the world.” There could be many levers that could move the world with sufficient time and trouble, but the lever that moves the world effortlessly is service in love. Where does one stand to move the world easily with the lever of service? The Ishayas have always maintained that the only true place to be centered is in the one- pointed faith of flawless commitment.
Commitment is everything. Until one has committed one’s life, there is no potential for growth or progress. This is true if one is committing to anything; Nature does not support vacillation. But all of the Universe responds to and supports action in accord with the upward currents of evolution.

In Between Evolution

[Kevala]

Thanks.... This is why we love the Hip!