Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.

I look at melody as rhythm.

Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.

You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

It's just music. It's playing clean and looking for the pretty notes.

I'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes (harmonies) that were being used all the time. I found that by using the higher intervals of a chord as a melody line and backing them with appropriately related changes I could play the thing I'd been hearing. I came alive.