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Having friends who are records nerds - that's the best thing you can do, have a record-geek friend to take you far.

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Stephen Nachmanovitch

Here the artist is, as it were, an archaeologist, uncovering deeper and deeper strata as he works, recovering not an ancient civilization, but something as yet unborn, unseen, unheard, except by the inner eye, the inner ear. He is not just removing apparent surfaces from some external object, he is removing apparent surface from the Self, revealing his original nature.

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The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.

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There are no prescriptive solutions, no grand designs for grand problems. Life's solutions lie in the minute particulars involving more and more individual people daring to create their own life and art, daring to listen to the voice within their deepest, original nature, and deeper still, the voice within the earth.

Art, Change, Deepest, Involving, Lying

In improvisation, there is only one time. This is what computer people call real time. The time of inspiration, the time of technically structuring and realizing. . . the time of playing it, and the time of communicating with the audience, are all one.

Inspiration, People, Playing, Real, Structuring, Technically

If I "try" to play, I fail; if I force the play, I crush it; if I race, I trip. Any time I stiffen or brace myself against some error or problem, the very act of bracing would cause the problem to occur. The only road to strength is vulnerability.

Cause, Crush, Errors, Problem, Race, Strength

Surrender means cultivating a comfortable attitude toward not knowing, being nurtured by the mystery of moments that are dependably surprising, ever fresh.

Attitude, Cultivating, Knowing, Mean, Surrender
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