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We do not know what we may be able to do until we try, and we can never be certain beforehand that an experience is worth having until we have had it.

William James, Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (1907)
1w ago

I realized those sounds were actually more interesting to me than some super pure note I could play really well had I been practicing a lot. These were things I'd never pay attention to or something I shouldn't even be playing when I was studying classical music. It's such a different mindset of approaching music. Instead of 'I've got to get it right,' it's more like, 'What can happen?'

2mo ago

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