The great thing about jamming is that you come in with zero preconceptions. Someone might want to play something that suggests something else to you, and the next thing you know you're on a 20-minute adventure.
Interpretation
Jamming fosters creativity and spontaneity without preconceived notions.
This quote emphasizes the beauty of musical improvisation, where musicians enter a session without any expectations. Through collaboration and shared creativity, they embark on unexpected journeys, producing unique and spontaneous music that can evolve in surprising directions.
In practice
A musician might quote this during a workshop on improvisation to inspire participants.
I'm a musician, and I feel like musicians owe it to themselves and owe it to music to concern themselves with as much of music as interests them. Even if you decide that you're never going to compose, you will be a better performer if you concern yourself with the craft of composition.
Because here’s the thing: No matter how much one tells stories of magical beasts or impossible worlds, in the end, it is always the world of here and now one is writing about. The better one understands that world, the more powerful the stories will be.
I'd rather hold one note for an hour and modulate it so that it means something than play 3,000 notes in 15 seconds.
Where there is true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.
All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins?
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
Long before social media existed, the proto-tweets of advertising had penetrated American popular culture: 'A mind is a terrible thing to waste.' 'Where's the beef?' 'A diamond is forever.' 'Think different.' You'd be hard pressed to find a writer's craft that has more directly influenced the vernacular.
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