"Of all the ways to improvise, the most stimulating and demanding is jazz, because it...asks you to thoroughly know both your instrument and the principles of music so well that they are reduced to subconscious habits...”
“Self-expression,” he has said, “doesn’t mean collecting a bunch of licks from other people and wearing them like a necklace. You’ve got to be yourself If you don’t believe what you’re playing, your audience will not feel anything.”
(Everyone can play a cowboy E chord subconsciously...now I just gotta work on the rest of the guitar! To be a parrot or to be a pioneer...what's your path? - Ed)
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Wednesday, 8 April 2009
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