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Learn everything, then forget it all. - Charlie Parker
“Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live
it, it won't come out of your horn [drum].”
Don't play what's there, play what's not there. - Miles Davis
I'll play it first and tell you what it's called later. - Miles Davis
The idea of a mistake is beside the point, for once anything happens it
authentically is. - John Cage
If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterwards.
"If you are able to discover your own keynote or chord and play it over
gently to yourself, you will revive as if by magic. Your keynote can be
ascertained by listening to some good music. When the note is played it will
send a thrill right through you." - Vera Stanley Alder
- Joe Pass
The man that hath no music in himself Nor is not move'd with concord of
sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons , stratagems, and spoils; The motions of
his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus: Let no such
man be trusted.
An
error may be only an unintentional rightness...Do not get too fussy about how
every part of the thing sounds. Go ahead. All processes are at first awkward and
clumsy and "funny." Do not be afraid of being wrong; just be afraid of being
uninteresting. --T. Carl Whitmer
How you play a note is just as important as what the note is.
“....And as regards method, the improviser employs the oldest in
music-making...Mankind's first musical performance couldn't have been anything
other than a free improvisation. --Derek Bailey
- Henry Kaiser
“Free
improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to
use by almost anyone--beginners, children, and non-musicians…”-Derek Bailey
You can’t make your music good. You can’t try to be good. You can try to be
present and you can try to remain open so what is going to speak to you can
speak through you. - Michael Hedges
Improvisation is the basis of learning to play a musical instrument. But
what usually happens? You decide you want a certain instrument. You buy the
instrument and then think to yourself, "I'll go and find a teacher, and who
knows, in seven or eight years' time I might be able to play this thing."
And in that way you miss a mass of important musical experience...a person's
own investigation of an instrument--his exploration of it--is totally valid.
--John Stevens
If somebody says to me "I can't improvise!"-- and they could be somebody with
the biggest chunk of classical training imaginable in their background -- I
would find that very inspiring.
Because I know that within a very short time they will be doing it and
saying "Oh, is that it?" And then they will do it again. You see, it's the most
natural thing in the world. -John Stevens
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