The conception, composition, practice, and performance of a piece of music can blossom in a single moment.

The conception, composition, practice, and performance of a piece of music can blossom in a single moment.

If a creative person has a sense of humor, a sense of style and a certain amount of stubbornness, he finds a way to do what he needs to in spite of the obstacles.

Play is the taproot from which original art springs. It is the raw stuff that the artist channels with all his learning and technique.

Writing, playing, composing, painting, reading, listening, looking-all require that we submit to being swept away by Eros, to a transformation of self of the kind that happens when we fall in love.

An improviser does not operate from a formless vacuum, but from three billion years of organic evolution

Here the artist is, as it were, an archaeologist, uncovering deeper and deeper strata as he works, recovering not an ancient civilization, but something as yet unborn, unseen, unheard, except by the inner eye, the inner ear. He is not just removing apparent surfaces from some external object, he is removing apparent surface from the Self, revealing his original nature.