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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of ones chosen form.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
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Stephen Nachmanovitch
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: November 2
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Commitment to a set of rules frees your play to attain a profundity and vigor otherwise impossible.
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There is not ultimate breakthrough what we find in the development of a creative life is an open-ended series of provisional breakthroughs. In this journey there is no endpoint, because it is the journey into the soul.
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Improvisation is intuition in action, a way to discover the muse and learn to respond to her call.
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Writing, playing, composing, painting, reading, listening, looking-all require that we submit to being swept away by Eros, to a transformation of self of the kind that happens when we fall in love.
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Memory and intention and intuition are fused. The iron is always hot.
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As an improvising musician, I am not in the music business, I am not in the creativity business I am in the surrender business.
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Working within the limits of the medium forces us to change our own limits. Improvisation is not breaking with forms and limitations just to be 'free,' but using them as the very means of transcending ourselves.
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Any action can be practiced as an art, as a craft, or as drudgery.
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When we are totally faithful to our own individuality, we are actually following a very intricate design. This kind of freedom is the opposite of just anything.
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Brahms once remarked that the mark of an artist is how much he throws away. Nature, the great creator, is always throwing things away. A frog lays several million eggs at a sitting. Only a few dozen of these become tadpoles, and only a few of those become frogs. We can let imagination and practice be as profligate as nature.
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The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.
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There are no prescriptive solutions, no grand designs for grand problems. Life's solutions lie in the minute particulars involving more and more individual people daring to create their own life and art, daring to listen to the voice within their deepest, original nature, and deeper still, the voice within the earth.
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The power of mistakes enables us to reframe creative blocks and turn them around...The troublesome parts of our work, the parts that are most baffling and frustrating, are in fact the growing edges. We see these opportunities the instant we drop our preconceptions and our self-importance.
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If we are transparent, with nothing to hide, the gap between language and being disappears. Then the Muse can speak.
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There are only people doing their imperfect best at doing their imperfect jobs
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With too little judgement, we get trash. With too much judgement, we get blockage.
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In improvisation, there is only one time. This is what computer people call real time. The time of inspiration, the time of technically structuring and realizing... the time of playing it, and the time of communicating with the audience, are all one.
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We provide both irritation and inspiration for each other- the grist for each other's pearl making.
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