I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever.
I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales.
If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.
You can't learn pathos or profundity.
Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him.
Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when I'm playing Beethoven, Bach, Hendrix, or whoever it is, in the end, it just feels like my own music and I'm making it up as I'm going along.