I Meant to Do That

November 23rd, 2008Blog0 comments

I forgot to mention that a neat quote I heard out of that prior RadioLab show was this: Jazz musicians say that while you’re playing, if you make a mistake, do it twice. Meaning that while you’re improvising, if you screw up you should do it again. Because then it appears that you have a pattern going — a foundation that you can build and continue to improvise off of. At the most you might learn something new; at the least it looks like you did it on purpose.

Like if you fall on your face once it’s an accident. If you do it twice in a row, it’s your schtick.