November 1, 2006
Play from Your Heart, Not from Your Mind
The late, great Stevie Ray Vaughan:
“Since I can’t read music and everything, I find out that I do the best when I just listen to where I’m trying to go with it, and where it can go, and not try to rush it, not try to make up things as I’m going necessarily, just let them come out, then I’m a lot better off. If I start trying to pay attention to where I am on the neck, and this is the proper way to do this or that, ya know, then I end up thinking that thing through, and instead of playing from my heart I’m playing from my mind, and that’s where I find I get in trouble. If I just go with what’s in my heart and let it come out, then I’m OK.”
Cat: | Time: 10:34 pm (utc+8)
November 1st, 2006 at 11:50 pm
How true. As a musician myself, the moment I would think to myself “wow we’re jamming awesome” I would start to think too much and flub the jam. Stevie was a great player, too bad we lost him.