Playing the Game of Six Strings →

"You should never think it's easy. It doesn't matter how good you are."...

..."I've had loads of experience," he continues, "with very, very highly trained virtuso musicians who can play in any bebop setup, and I've seen them mess up in a major way on something they thought was easy. I've had the best drummers play things on TV shows where it's been a miserable bloody failure because they didn't understand enough of New Orleans music to grasp what the fuck we were actually on about. They missed the point entirely. I'm disgusted with them. People in show bands and all the rest think they can nod 'oh yeah' and understand what I'm talking about. But I tell you, my friend -- and everyone who reads this magazine -- they don't! There's an awful lot more to it than that. It's a disservice to people with real soul and it's a disservice to the heritage of American music."...

..."It's a tremendous mistake to get involved in music theory and so on, and then discount things about playing because you just don't hear it, you don't see it, and it doesn't fit your formulas. I don't care how many jazz lessons you've taken, I don't care how many modal dingbats you know. This is all shit! You should have enough reverence for music to make your own education."

~ from interview of Guitar Player, June 1992

「你不要以為這很簡單，這和你有多強是無關的。」．．．

．．．「我曾經很多次和一些有著非常高度訓練的大師級樂手一起工作，他們能夠在任何Bebop結構中演奏，同時我也看著他們在他們認為簡單的事情上搞錯了大方向。我曾經在電視節目中和一些最棒的鼓手們合作過，那是個痛苦又血淋淋的經驗，因為他們對於紐奧良音樂缺乏足夠的了解，以致於無法掌握到我們在做的事。他們完全沒抓到重點，他們讓我感到厭惡。那些在節目樂隊中的傢伙，還有那些點點頭說『喔耶』並且以為他們懂得我在說什麼的人，讓我告訴你，我的朋友－還有每一個讀到這本雜誌的人－他們不懂！比那個更加可怕的是，這是對於擁有真實靈魂的人的傷害，這是對於美國音樂傳統的傷害。」．．．

．．．「專注於音樂理論等等的事情，並且因為你不聽、不看、不符合你的公式，就看輕和彈奏有關的事，是一項嚴重的錯誤。我不在乎你上了多少爵士課程，我不在乎你知道多少調式之類的玩意，那些都是狗屎！你應該對音樂抱持著更多的敬畏來完成你自己的學習。」

~ 引自1992年6月Guitar Player中的訪談