Top 64 Quotes & Sayings by Stephen Nachmanovitch - Page 2

An improviser does not operate from a formless vacuum, but from three billion years of organic evolution

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.

I no longer sought skill, flexibility, strength, endurance, muscle tone, and quick responsiveness as means of imposing my will on the instrument, but rather of keeping an open and unrestricted pathway for the creative impulse to play its music straight from the preconscious depths beneath and beyond me.

The conception, composition, practice, and performance of a piece of music can blossom in a single moment.