That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.
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I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization whenever you can.
Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.
Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right.
Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.
Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.
When we first started playing we did a lot of rehearsing. We used to write out everything. In fact, that's the way everybody rehearses: we play the tunes and improvise.
If you do performance and music, it's not performance as music.
I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.
When you hear a great two-track of a performance in Carnegie Hall, let's say, it sounds like you're right there at that moment. It's true to reality. And the closer it gets, once it gets too technical, it becomes very tinny to hear notes. It doesn't sound right. It has to be natural.
Music is an art form. It is a way to wordlessly communicate.
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