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Play is the taproot from which original art springs. It is the raw stuff that the artist channels with all his learning and technique.
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
Looking at the creative process is like looking into a crystal: no matter which facet we gaze into, we see all the others reflected.
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
With too little judgement, we get trash. With too much judgement, we get blockage.
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
The beauty of playing together is meeting in the One.
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
We provide both irritation and inspiration for each other- the grist for each other's pearl making.
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
We can depend on the world being a perpetual surprise in perpetual motion.
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
If we split practice from the real thing, neither one of them will be very real.
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
Every attempt we make is imperfect; yet each one of those imperfect attempts is an occasion for a delight unlike anything else on earth.
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
Play, intrinsically rewarding, doesn't cost anything; as soon as you put a price on it, it becomes, to some extent, not play.
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
There are only people doing their imperfect best at doing their imperfect jobs
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
Faithfulness to the moment and to the present circumstance entails continuous surrender.
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
Creative living, or the life of a creator, seems like a leap into the unknown only because "normal life" is rigid and traumatized.
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
Improvisation is intuition in action, a way to discover the muse and learn to respond to her call.
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
Every conversation is a form of Jazz. The activity of instantaneous creation is as ordinary to us as breathing.
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
If we are transparent, with nothing to hide, the gap between language and being disappears. Then the Muse can speak.
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
To do anything artistically you have to acquire technique, but create through your technique and not with it.
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
Commitment to a set of rules frees your play to attain a profundity and vigor otherwise impossible.
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
The conception, composition, practice, and performance of a piece of music can blossom in a single moment.
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of ones chosen form.
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
Play cannot be defined, because in play all definitions slither, dance, combine, break apart, and recombine.
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
Any action can be practiced as an art, as a craft, or as drudgery.
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
Fidgeting and boredom are the symptoms of fear of emptiness, which we try to fill up with whatever we can lay our hands on.
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
Play enables us to rearrange our capacities and our very identity so that they can be used in unforeseen ways
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
As an improvising musician, I am not in the music business, I am not in the creativity business; I am in the surrender business.
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
You can't express inspiration without skill.
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
An improviser does not operate from a formless vacuum, but from three billion years of organic evolution
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
To create, we need both technique and freedom of technique
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
Memory and intention and intuition are fused. The iron is always hot.
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
Whispered words can be devastatingly effective.
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
Creativity exists more in the searching than in the finding.
— Stephen Nachmanovitch