Quotes About Exploration

... don't be afraid to screw up !... one of the key issues to learning is making mistakes ... if you're not making mistakes, you're probably not having a very good time

We all have to open our minds, stretch forth, take chances and venture out musically to try and arrive at something new and different.

In improvisation, there are no mistakes.

I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.

It seems stupid when people limit themselves to one kind of music. It tells me they're not using their ears.

For they (art and music) are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.

Music can imply the infinite if enough things depart from the norm far enough. Strange "abnormal" events can lead to the feeling that anything can happen, and you have a music with no boundaries.

I love Indian music very much, but I haven't studied that specifically.

A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot.

I do not write experimental music. My experimenting is done before I make the music. Afterwards it is the listener who must experiment.

Wilderness. The word itself is music.

What's the point of getting up in the morning unless you're gonna have an adventure? As the moments of our life are ticking away you have to be aware that it needs to be an adventure

Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope.

The music takes you. It has to be alive. It's like you hammer something, and the way it happens to bleed leads you into new directions.

Every great inspiration is but an experiment.

The more I can learn about music, the more I learn about other things.

For the past couple of years I've been pretty bored with music in general... just bored with it.

It's very important that the music has a sense of adventure to it, and that it's done by the seat of your pants. There's a kind of nervy element about it.

Something new has been added, a new art of sound. Am I wrong in calling it music?

I want to investigate different cultures, to see how their identities and values affect their music. It's one way I can get to know our world, at least to a certain depth.

There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.

Trying to play the new concept with a outward bound feeling.

A songwriter's heart is pure when they have the desire to keep digging deeper into music. And invariably, when you dig deeper it always leads you into the past.

I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.