I read two quotes from Jeff Buckley a couple weeks ago that made a big impression on me:
There is no ‘good’ singing. There’s only ‘present’ and ‘absent’. That’s it. It’s the balls, just the utter deathlessness, fearlessness.
He then goes on to describe how this “deathlessness, fearlessness” (what I should have titled this blog) is worthless unless you’re bringing that into the present moment of your everyday life. He describes how the background noise in the club he would play at first drove him crazy, but he learned to bring the fearlessness in his present moment:
I even had to learn the noise the dishwasher makes at this little cafe; I had to play in B-Flat, or it wouldn’t sound right.
These days, I’m learning how to bring my fearlessness in line with the dishwasher.
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