This came up in the Neil Peart piece: the idea of snare drummers as opposed to drum set players. People who play the drums as a single four limb instrument vs. people who are essentially […]
Category: very occasional quote of the day
Very occasional quote of the day: technique
There are a few technique-related posts coming up, and after last week’s teaching rant, this quote from Bill Evans is particularly timely. Italics are mine: “Technique we always think of as being a thing having to […]
Very occasional quote of the day: What “a gig” was
“You didn’t get a gig for a weekend, like two days at The Gate. It wasn’t like that. We’d stay at a place a week to three weeks, sometimes seven nights a week and five […]
Very occasional quote of the day: late arrivers
“There’s a certain kind of people that are more or less late arrivers, you can – even though he was certainly on the scene and known and respected – you can hear him building his […]
Very occasional quote of the day: established discipline
“Bach taught how to find originality within an established discipline— actually how to live.” — Jean-Paul Sartre
Very occasional quote of the day: Fast City
Omar Hakim speaks to Modern Drummer when he was with Weather Report in the mid 80s: RT : How did you learn to play bop so fast? OH : I don’t know. With much difficulty. […]
Very occasional quote of the day: let go lightly
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” — Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching “I used to call myself a free jazz drummer, now I just want to play […]
Very occasional quote of the day: spirit
“Now-a-days the technical information is available. A lot of people have it, which proves all the more that it’s not the key to the music. The key is what’s inside, the life you live, and […]
Very occasional quote of the day: random factors
“Life is a cut-up; consciousness is a cut-up. Every time you walk down the street or look out the window, your stream of consciousness is cut by random factors.” — William S. Burroughs, The Adding […]
Very occasional quotes of the day: L.H.O.O.Q.
“[…] I had had Genius pushed at me all through school: Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Ibsen, G.B. Shaw, Chekov, all those dullards. And worse, Mark Twain, Hawthorne, the Brontë sisters, Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, it all just laid […]