Focus, music and the big picture – a quote to consider
Reading Winifred Gallagher’s, Rapt (which is quite good) and (in an different source) came across this Jonas Hellborg quote which (in addition to being in synch with Rapt) is both eloquent and poignant to me. Perhaps you’ll agree.
“In order to function as a human being, you have to be able to focus. You have to be able to center. Some people are into religion. They pray or meditate or they do this or that. Music is such a thing. It’s a discipline and you use it for the purpose of focusing your mental, your spiritual activity in one direction and become whole. As you do that you will get more and more capacity as a musician. But if you can express what you need to express with just a limited vocabulary, you can still do that. It’s not about the vocabulary. It’s not about how many words you can use; it’s about what you can say.”
Wise words….
Thanks for reading.
-SC
