Creativity in general is experimental and improvisational in the beginning – from writing songs to first draft poems and, perhaps most notably, unscripted comedy.
Every now and then, I'll come across a musician or singer who indicates how magical music is to them. But they also make it clear they have no idea what's going on.
My favorite version of that is Sir Paul McCartney who said in an interview, "I don't know how it works. Sometimes when you've got lyrics you can touch a nerve, but it's more than that…it's magic."
Miles Davis is said to have told bandmates to play "as far as you know how, and then beyond what you know how."
At any rate, I am completely enamored with all types of jazz, blues, and guitar-centric jam bands because there's such amazing human magic there. It truly is a higher form of consciousness, both for musicians and listeners.
And did you know that as a very young and gifted jazz trumpeter in the 1920s, Louis Armstrong pioneered the improvisational instrumental solo? He started out being given a trumpet as a 13-year-old in jail. Talk about creativity! Definitely a higher form of consciousness that he gifted the world.
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