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JUST RELAX 



"I'd been studying the microphone for a dozen years when I suddenly saw what I'd been doing wrong. I'd been singing too loud. One night I was listening to a record by Lester Young, the horn player, and it came to me. Relax, just relax. It's all going to be all right." ~Marvin Gaye

02/21/2011

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WANTING TOO 



"Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing."
~Sylvia Plath

"After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true."
~Spock

“Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.”
  ~Ingrid Bergman

05/10/2010

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BEGINNER'S MIND 



"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge."
~Charles Darwin

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure
and the intelligent are full of doubt."
~Bertrand Russell

"Being sure of yourself means you're a fool."
~Jenny Holzer

04/27/2010

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A PRINCE ENJOYING HIS INCOGNITO 



"For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer, it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng, in the ebb and flow, the bustle, the fleeting and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel at home anywhere; to see the world, to be at the very center of the world, and yet to be unseen of the world, such are some of the minor pleasures of those independent, intense and impartial spirits, who do not lend themselves easily to linguistic definitions. The observer is a prince enjoying his incognito wherever he goes."
~Charles Baudelaire

04/23/2010

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STEALTH STRATEGY 



"All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved."
~Sun Tzu

04/19/2010

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LEAVING THE SUPERFLUOUS 



“It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.”

~Johannes Brahms

04/19/2010

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EARS 



"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening.
Most people never listen."
~Ernest Hemingway

"Ears. Now, they're important, too."
~Jonathan E.

"Nuff said."
~Stan Lee

04/19/2010

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NEGATIVE SPACE ~ DM on Improvisation 



I'm working on eliminating nonsense phrases from my improvisations -- the musical equivalent of "like," "ya know" and "umm."

There are certain cliches that I tend to reflexively insert when grasping for the next idea. I'm training myself to embrace more negative space during those searching moments --  to simply be still and listen, to just pay attention, rather than compulsively fill the space.

04/17/2010

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OCCAM'S AESTHETIC RAZOR 



"I'd rather hear Thad Jones miss a note
than hear Freddie Hubbard make twelve."
~Miles Davis

“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?
He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right.
But there are older and simpler and better words,
and those are the ones I use.”
~Ernest Hemingway

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
~Leonardo da Vinci


 

04/12/2010

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OVER THERE 


04/11/2010

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STIFF UPPER LIP 

04/02/2010

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THE EXPERTS AGREE 

 
"The goal of learning is to become capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done. Three phases of development must be mastered. The first is the COGNITIVE or 'post hoc' phase. You understand you want to do something, and you see the path ahead of you. This is the trial and error phase. The second phase is called ASSOCIATIVE or 'ad hoc.' You achieve awareness in the moment. The simple aspects of the new skill appear fluent and polished, but the more complicated aspects demand concentration. The third phase is the AUTONAMOUS or 'pre hoc' phase. You've learned the skill so well that you can perform it consistently, fluidly and in an aesthetically pleasing manner. The motor programs involved are stored in the long-term memory so the mind is free to invent something new. The secret? You must pass through phases one and two to get to three."
~Jean Piaget

"Mastery is attainable through SHU-HA-RI. SHU means to learn, to obey the teacher and to protect the fundamental forms. HA is to detach, to forget the self, and to become one with your practice. RI means to leave home, to separate from the master, and to forge a new way. RI is the way of transcendence, the way of nature. Forms are left behind and only spirit remains. You are probably not yet ready for RI."
~Morihei Ueshiba

"There are three stages to learning jazz: first, you have to study how the masters did it. Second, you practice until you're so comfortable with the tradition that you make it your own. Only then are you ready for the final stage: forgetting what you've learned and finding your own voice. IMITATION, ASSIMILATION, INNOVATION. Always in that order. And be patient, because you'll spend most of your life working on step two."
~Art Farmer

04/02/2010

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PUT DOWN THE DUCKY 

03/28/2010

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RESTRAINT 



"There are people in this world who go about demanding to be killed. You must have noticed them. They quarrel in gambling games. They jump out of their automobiles in a rage. They humiliate and bully people whose capabilities they do not know. These are people who wander through the world shouting, kill me. And there's always someone ready to oblige to them." ~Vito Corleone
, The Godfather

02/14/2010

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