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John Abercrombie

You're just sort of searching for this 'thing' and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All music is imperfect, but in jazz since you're improvising, at least the way I play, I'm trying to follow my train of thought in a solo.

— John Abercrombie time

If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music.

— John Abercrombie music

Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and then another phrase that I can't stand. You have to live with what you play. And the recording medium puts that on us. When I play live gigs I don't think so much like that.

— John Abercrombie time

Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that. Glenn Gould said that with a recording he wanted to make perfect versions of pieces.

— John Abercrombie time

I don't remember what was going through my mind, but what was going through my body was fear and terror. I had been on the road with Johnny and working gigs and playing a lot of the organ clubs.

— John Abercrombie fear

On record dates like that I never felt too nervous because everything was really overdubbed. When we did that album, we were in the studio for probably a week, so you had a lot of opportunity to fix things.

— John Abercrombie opportunity

Youre just sort of searching for this thing and sometimes you get it and sometimes you dont. All music is imperfect, but in jazz since youre improvising, at least the way I play, Im trying to follow my train of thought in a solo.

— John Abercrombie time

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