giardullo-learn

September 1, 2025

I played a solo concert a couple of years ago in Champaign Urbana, Illinois, and after there was discussion with the audience. Somebody asked, why do you play music like that? It wasn’t confrontational; it was simply a question of why. I’d never thought about it, but my answer came very quickly: I do it because I learn. The person then said, what do you learn? I said I didn’t know, but I know I learn something every time. Sometimes it’s about me, sometimes it’s about the music, and sometimes it’s about something else – but it’s always a revelation.

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Thought:

“He probably wanted real power, the power to direct one’s environment towards a harmonious end, and not fictitious power, the power to order and be obeyed; and he must have known that he had not been able to exercise real power over Rome. It would have been easier for him if what we were told when we were young was true, and that the decay of Rome was due to immorality. Life, however, is never as simple as that, and human beings rarely so potent.”

Rebecca West | Black Lamb and Grey Falcon

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