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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.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
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Stephen Nachmanovitch
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: November 2
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If the art is created with the whole person, then the work will come out whole. Education must teach, reach, and vibrate the whole person rather than merely transfer knowledge.
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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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If we split practice from the real thing, neither one of them will be very real.
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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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Any action can be practiced as an art, as a craft, or as drudgery.
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The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.
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Paradoxically, the more you are yourself, the more universal your message. As you develop and individuate more deeply, you break through into deeper layers of the collective consciousness and the collective unconsciousness.
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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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The beauty of playing together is meeting in the One.
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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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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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An improviser does not operate from a formless vacuum, but from three billion years of organic evolution
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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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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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With too little judgement, we get trash. With too much judgement, we get blockage.
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