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Paul Humphrey was a session drummer who worked with everyone from Jimmy Smith and Charles Mingus to Frank Zappa and Marvin Gaye. He was also the drummer for Lawrence Welk’s TV show in the late seventies, and his children would sometimes appear with him on the show. Sound familiar?
Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson • Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove
Self 2 has very good instincts about when it is time to work on any particular element of your stroke.
W Timothy Gallwey • The Inner Game of Tennis: The classic guide to the mental side of peak performance
the most important part of casting Swings is finding those with the “Swing Brain.” This factor can be difficult to teach and is basically a combination of organizational skills, a “level head,” spatial awareness, and a “go-with-the-flow” attitude.
Lyndy Franklin Smith • Broadway Swings: Covering the Ensemble in Musical Theatre
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This was one of William James’s favorite subjects. He thought you wanted to put part of your life on autopilot; by forming good habits, he said, we can “free our minds to advance to really interesting fields of action.”
Mason Currey • Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
I will claim that hearing, grasping, understanding, “getting” a groove requires actual body movement.
Tiger C. Roholt • Groove: A Phenomenology of Rhythmic Nuance
Melodies which run through your mind…may give the analyst a clue to the secret life of emotions that every one of us lives…. In this inward singing, the voice of an unknown self conveys not only passing moods and impulses, but sometimes a disavowed or denied wish, a longing and a drive we do not like to admit to ourselves…. Whatever secret message
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Most basketball players appropriate fragments of other players’ styles, and thus develop their own. This is what Bradley has done, but one of the things that set him apart from nearly everyone else is that the process has been conscious rather than osmotic. His jump shot, for example, has had two principal influences. One is Jerry West, who has one
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