Max Roach by Jean-Michel Basquiat “What makes a piece an art piece is design. Design. If you play any instrument, if you don’t create design…. If the artist doesn’t know how to utilize space and […]
Category: very occasional quote of the day
Very occasional quote of the day: practicing eight hours a day
“Do it ’til you get to a certain point technically where you don’t do it.” — Jack Dejohnette, unpublished interview with Scott K. Fish
Very occasional quote of the day: conversation
Glass: “Listen to me. Shut the f__ up and listen. I’m trying to compliment you.” Kindler: “I won’t be able to be doing a bit if I listen. If I stop talking, you might be […]
Very occasional quote of the day: the drummer’s job
“Your job is to make everyone in that band feel like playing. It’s a very idealistic way of looking at it, but you have got to. Because that’s your outlet.” — Ed Soph, interview with […]
Very occasional quote of the day: Bohemian Rhapsody
“…sometimes it’s just a little voice that tells you that if Bohemian Rhapsody was big in my house, it was probably big in other people’s houses too.” —Mike Myers, fighting to get the song used […]
Very occasional quote of the day: remember this
“The obstacle is the path.” — Zen proverb, via the Zen proverbs Twitter feed The “purpose” of Zen is not to be a performance-enhancer, but this is a good one to remember in the practice […]
VOQOTD: Miles
This is from an interview by Jake Feinberg in Tucson, who you should be following— he’s interviewed a lot of great people: “I’ve been a sideman in a lot of different bands. The only time […]
Very occasional quote of the day: Kurt Cobain
“Learn how to not play your instrument.” —Cobain diary entry, from the HBO documentary “Montage Of Heck” (h/t to Mark Wooley)
Very occasional quote of the day: reasons
“Where did the ride cymbal pattern come from? Why does ding-dinga-ding exist? Where did that come from? Why is the hi-hat played on two and four, and not on one and three? Why was the […]
Very occasional quote of the day: resistance
There’s a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don’t, and the secret is this: It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write. — Steve Pressfield, The War […]