I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts.
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I go about composing like a factory worker. I punch in. I believe it's written somewhere Steve Swallow has to sit uneasily at the piano for ten hours before receiving his next idea, so I sit there as patiently as possible. Eventually, an idea always comes, and then the rest is science.
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