'For me,' he explains his mammoth project, 'it is an obligation to know and learn to understand the various styles living within the guitar, to work with them and pursue them up to a certain point and, when I feel I have learned enough about them, to let them go again. These CDs are a form of pool, a rucksack with everything I have at the moment and what I have focused on.' (Suddeutsche Zeitung, August 1997, Ralf Dombrowski)
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The musician sees his project as a duty to learn various guitar styles, to work with them, and then release them, treating his CDs as a temporary collection of his current focus.
- In plain terms
- He must learn and then let go of guitar styles, using recordings as a temporary store.
- What can you take from it?
- Learn, apply, then move on; treat work as a temporary collection.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- When should one stop exploring new styles?
- How does letting go benefit creativity?
Another view
Constantly moving on may prevent deep mastery of any one style.
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