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“If you don’t live it and it’s not a part of you, it’s not going to come out of the instrument. What we play is life. What we create is life.”
— Jon Batiste
No song is an island
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“Man, sometimes is takes you a long time to sound like yourself.”
—Miles Davis
Artur Schnabel once said, “The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes—ah, that is where the art resides.”2
Olivia Fox Cabane • The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism
Hans Zimmer’s advice to musicians:
I think you have to have a lot of courage and a certain amount of foolishness to want to become a musician. You have to be completely and utterly insane and passionate at the same time, because to make a living as a musician is very difficult. On the other hand, to live a playful life, the way a musician does, is m
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