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A cheat sheet for artists of all sorts.
My favorite imperatives:
Discriminate: Don’t play everything. Let some things go by.
Be yourself.
mrgan:
Thelonius Monk’s advice to saxophonist Steve Lacy (1960)

A cheat sheet for artists of all sorts.

My favorite imperatives:

  1. Discriminate: Don’t play everything. Let some things go by.
  2. Be yourself.

mrgan:

Thelonius Monk’s advice to saxophonist Steve Lacy (1960)
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    advice to saxophonist Steve Lacy (1960). See his full handprinted
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    So many amazing nuggets of pure genius in two pages. This is surely a complete manifesto on playing music and probably...
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    Great jazz, like anything great, comes from serious self-awareness.
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    “What you don’t play can be more important”- Thelonius Monk to saxophonist Steve Lacy (1960).