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Originally Posted by hat and beard
I'm just going to have to start limiting my musical researchin' and start stepping up my musical experiencin'.
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Amen.
and like you, i'm sure, i wouldn't want anyone to get me wrong when i say the following:
i am all into getting into new things and finding out about as much as i can as possible
but i've noticed, especially when looking for books to read at the library or bookstore, that there is simply too much good stuff out there
and I, considering my compulsive and intellectually voracious nature, want to take it all in at once.
and well, of course, that's just not possible unless you're a quiz kid or truly
do have "encyclopedic mind".
i'm sure that there is a way to balance both without getting too overloaded, and i try to everyday.
but overall, it's best, like you said hat and beard (is that a Eric Dolphy reference? (which is a Monk reference)), to
experience rather than
research.
there's a line in a poem i wrote recently that speaks to that.
you try too hard
to use the time you have
to kill the time you need