Tag Archive | "Music"
Is Your Best Work Ahead of You?
It’s important that we know our best work is yet to be produced. Our best is what is in us now, not what we – or others - admire about the past. Jazz Composer, Maria Schneider, has a story to illustrate this point.
Continue reading...The Space Between Your Notes
Thursday, December 17, 2009
“Music is the space between the notes” – Claude Debussy I thought of this quote before discovering someone much more intelligent said it first. I was at a show listening to bluegrass virtuosos play so fast that it was hard to discern a space between notes. It made me realize that there was only one interpretation possible. There were no spaces for me to think or feel anything but the energy of their content.
Continue reading...Creative Expectations
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Creativity isn’t just about being unique. Different for the sake of different can be shallow and self indulgent. Expectations are powerful; they are strong audience connectors. Just like a sales person who asks for “yes” repeatedly before making the sale, or when Bugs Bunny bamboozles Elmer Fudd by finding the rhythm of call and response more »
Continue reading...Video Interviews with Creative Professionals
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