Music can shoot through the musician like lightening through the sky if that music is unobstructed by thoughts.
Intellect has to surrender to instinct when it is time to play.
In fear, we expect; with love, we accept.
Fear closes all doors to the true self, that brilliant center where the ecstasy lies.
Bill Evans described his tunes as vehicles; they are vehicles for self-expression, or expression of the self.
Mastery is playing whatever you're capable of playing-every time-WITHOUT THINKING.