Some music is just imagined

Don't play everything (or every time); let some things go by... What you don't play can be more important than what you do.

Thelonious Monk

"The silence between the notes is as important as the notes themselves." - Mozart

“Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.”

This is an insight that has been repeated by artists, too. Pablo Picasso: “Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.” James Baldwin: “Perhaps the primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.” Bob Dylan: “To be creative you’ve got to be u... See more