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I definitely struggle with this. I find that it helps a great deal to be in community with other people and to have somebody holding you accountable for doing something (not necessarily creative stuff). But that's often difficult in this modern world of ours.

In anything worth doing, there's going to be a time when it feels like work and you wonder why you bother. This applies to friendships, hobbies, whatever. It's the nature of things that it's easy to keep going when you've got momentum and hard to get anywhere once you've lost it.

I love/hate Christmas music as well, so if this happens, count me in.

All fame is only momentary. I don't see how your music being riddled with illegal samples will somehow make your hypothetical limelight even briefer, though.

@SketchMan3 - I agree with you that people can be pretty silly about artists sampling chiptune music (Crystal Castles is what comes to mind for me, I don't know if there are any other cases); however, there is a bit of a difference between an unknown artist failing to credit a well-known song and a well-known artist failing to credit an unknown song.

If by "rules" you mean "laws," there are fair use laws surrounding these things but they're very subjective and get messy fast. To summarize, if you're a small-time artist, and/or you're making use of only small samples which are sufficiently recontextualized, and/or if you're not selling your music, no one is likely to take any action against you. If a major artist *wanted* to target any particular unlicensed user of samples from their music, my impression is they'd probably win. But it's unlikely to be worth their while.

People can get pretty paranoid about this stuff but from what I've seen it isn't that big of a deal even for relatively popular artists. To be safe, I might leave samples uncredited in any obvious, web-searchable text block unless they were from people who I was pretty sure would have a benevolent view of such things. I can imagine some poor major label underling/bot sifting through text but it's hard to imagine they'd listen to a random song to see if it had unlicensed samples in it.

Space Hymns (2013 Space Theodicy Edition)

A significantly expanded edition of my first Brother Android release from 2009. Cover art is tentative. Stay tuned.

You're a wonderful human being. As soon as I think of something rad for you to engrave (well, assuming I've also figured out how to LSDJ) I'll hit you up. I'm curious about engraving on an NES as well.