Barry Finnerty quotes

The challenge to the improvisor is to get permanence into his spontaneity. The challenge to the composer is to get spontaneity into his permanence.
-- Barry Finnerty

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It's fun to be creative and innovative and come up with something crazy. So I need people to work with who are not going to be afraid to take it to the left a bit.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.

I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.

Each day was a challenge of enjoyment, and he [Hemingway] would plan it out as a field general plans a campign.

King Crimson is never easy; it's challenging. That's why I like it.

Spontaneity has its time and its place.

As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.

Without spontaneity in any sport, you cannot succeed.

Analysis kills spontaneity.