5 masters of their craft and their valuable advice
Bill Evans
"All I must do, is take care of the music, even if I do it in a closet, and if I really do that, somebody is gonna come and open the door of the closet and say, Hey, we’re looking for you."
"I do not agree that the layman's opinion is less of a valid judgement of music than that of the professional musician. In fact I would often rely more on the judgement of a sensitive laymen, than that of a professional, since the professional because of his constant involvement with the mechanics of music must fight to preserve the naivete that the layman already possesses."
David Bowie
"Never play to the gallery. Always remember that the reason that you initially started working was that there was something inside yourself that you felt that if you could manifest in some way, you would understand more about yourself and how you co-exist with the rest of society."
"Go a little bit out of your depth. When you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting."
Andrei Tarkovsky
“Let them be helpless like children, because weakness is a great thing, and strength is nothing. When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible.
When he dies, he is hard and insensitive. When a tree is growing, it's tender and pliant. But when it's dry and hard, it dies. Hardness and strength are death's companions. Pliancy and weakness are expressions of the freshness of being.“
Marina Abramović
"What you’re doing is not important. What is really important is the state of mind from which you do it."
Henri Matisse
"Master the basics, then be expressive."
"A new picture must be a unique thing. The artist must summon all his energy, his sincerity and the greatest modesty to shatter the old clichés that come so easily to hand while working."