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And Don't Forget...

Stephane Grappelli: "Great improvisers are like priests. They are thinking only of their god."

Louis Armstrong: "What we play is life."

P.N. Johnson-Laird: "The essential psychological feature of musical improvisation, whether it be modern jazz, classical music, Indian, African, or music of any other sort, is that the musicians themselves do not have conscious access to the processes underlying their production of music...The fact is that human beings have conscious access to only a small part of the contents of their minds, and hardly any access whatsoever to mental processes... [Dave Sundrow] indicates that as one develops the ability to improvise the skill seems to come out of the very end of one's fingertips. Its main components are profoundly unconscious."

Renoir: "...We have a devilish amount of vanity to believe that what comes out of our brain is more valuable than what we see around us. Imagination doesn't take us very far, whereas the world is so immense. Even if we walked all of our lives, we shouldn't see the end of it..."

Thomas Moore: "Tradition teaches us that soul lies midway between understanding and unconsciousness, and that its instrument is neither the mind nor the body, but imagination."

Scott Raymond Adams: "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."

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