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Developing musical long-term memory is primarily a function of careful, conscious listening. There is no more important activity in influencing one's style than hearing the same recordingfour songs of Horace Silver, Jack Teagarden, Franz Schubert, or whatever it may be, for an hour each night for a week or three-just intimate, involved listening, not memorizing or running to the piano or another instrument to "learn" it. This practice, if done regularly, helps put the selected music into one's history and The Yo vocabulary, and will affect one's performance to some degree.
Primacy of the Ear
Ran Blake
Wouldn’t it just be better if fewer people posted less stuff, less frequently, and if smaller audiences saw it?
People Aren’t Meant to Talk This Much
Ian Bogost
There is an alternative: the unfashionable but powerful notion of letting time use you, approaching life not as an opportunity to implement your predetermined plans for success but as a matter of responding to the needs of your place and your moment in history.
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
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