blissblogger
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"Thought is the enemy of flow"
This quote could probably be a thread in the Music forum, because it's by a famous drummer, Vinnie Colaiuta (a famous drummer I'd never heard of until I saw someone post this quote - but apparently he is King Drummer, toast of the technical mags.
I wondered if it's true
In life
In writing
Or any kind of creative practice
I sort of think it's bunk, but then I'm very wedded to thought and thinking. Takes a lot to turn it off.
But I wondered if it might not even be true in music
(I'm not a musician so can't really speak to that)
But yeah thought - thought is flow, isn't it? Even linear thought is flow - just channeled a bit.
(This whole thing of being anti-linearity is very dated and '90s I think.)
(Yet also makes me of that Edward de Bono fellow and his "lateral thinking" paperbacks that you'd see, or I'd see at any rate, in the 1970s. Stuff that was made to be the stuff of management retraining seminars - "get your executives thinking outside the box and increase your profits" )
This quote could probably be a thread in the Music forum, because it's by a famous drummer, Vinnie Colaiuta (a famous drummer I'd never heard of until I saw someone post this quote - but apparently he is King Drummer, toast of the technical mags.
I wondered if it's true
In life
In writing
Or any kind of creative practice
I sort of think it's bunk, but then I'm very wedded to thought and thinking. Takes a lot to turn it off.
But I wondered if it might not even be true in music
(I'm not a musician so can't really speak to that)
But yeah thought - thought is flow, isn't it? Even linear thought is flow - just channeled a bit.
(This whole thing of being anti-linearity is very dated and '90s I think.)
(Yet also makes me of that Edward de Bono fellow and his "lateral thinking" paperbacks that you'd see, or I'd see at any rate, in the 1970s. Stuff that was made to be the stuff of management retraining seminars - "get your executives thinking outside the box and increase your profits" )