Followed jim's sig link here...
When I posted here in 2006, my signature, as I recall, was this:
(from Frank Zappa, A Token of My Extreme, the album Joe's Garage)
Quote:
Some people think that if they go too far,
They'll never get back to where the rest of them are.
Well I might be crazy, but there's one thing I know:
You might be surprised what you find when you go.
|
My current quote is a double-whammy, because it is one of my favorite musicians (Terry Bozzio, Zappa alumni, developed a completely unique form of music played on the standard parts of a drum kit) paraphrasing one of my favorite thinkers (Joseph Campbell, generalist, comparative mythology, can quote the stories from every culture and explain how they all refer to the same thing):
Quote:
There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there
it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your
expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever
gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track
|
The first part, about your "level of facility" I believe applies to every walk of life. Call me lazy, but there are many, many things I've never needed to understand at a granular level. The areas I drill down into, that is different. That is what makes me "me."
This is Terry Bozzio in the late 1990s, around the first time I saw him at a drum clinic: