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> [With too little judgement, we get trash. With too much judgement, we get blockage.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-nachmanovitch/with-too-little-judgement-we-get-trash-with-too-much-judgement-we-get/)

[Stephen Nachmanovitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-nachmanovitch/)

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## More by Stephen Nachmanovitch

> [Improvisation is intuition in action, a way to discover the muse and learn to respond to her call.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-nachmanovitch/improvisation-is-intuition-in-action-a-way-to-discover-the-muse-and/)

[Stephen Nachmanovitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-nachmanovitch/)

> [Writing, playing, composing, painting, reading, listening, looking-all require that we submit to being swept away by Eros, to a transformation of self of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-nachmanovitch/writing-playing-composing-painting-reading-listening-looking-all/)

[Stephen Nachmanovitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-nachmanovitch/)

> [Play cannot be defined, because in play all definitions slither, dance, combine, break apart, and recombine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-nachmanovitch/play-cannot-be-defined-because-in-play-all-definitions-slither-dance/)

[Stephen Nachmanovitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-nachmanovitch/)

> [Play enables us to rearrange our capacities and our very identity so that they can be used in unforeseen ways](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-nachmanovitch/play-enables-us-to-rearrange-our-capacities-and-our-very-identity-so/)

[Stephen Nachmanovitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-nachmanovitch/)

> [If we are transparent, with nothing to hide, the gap between language and being disappears. Then the Muse can speak.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-nachmanovitch/if-we-are-transparent-with-nothing-to-hide-the-gap-between-language/)

[Stephen Nachmanovitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-nachmanovitch/)

> [Many musicians are fabulously skilled at playing the black dots on the printed page, but mystified by how the dots got there in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-nachmanovitch/many-musicians-are-fabulously-skilled-at-playing-the-black-dots-on/)

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> [In the art of teaching, we recognize that ideas and insights need to cook over a period of time. Sometimes the student who is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-nachmanovitch/in-the-art-of-teaching-we-recognize-that-ideas-and-insights-need-to/)

[Stephen Nachmanovitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-nachmanovitch/)

> [Every moment of life is unique-a kiss, a sunset, a dance, a joke. None will ever recur in quite the same way. Each happens…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-nachmanovitch/every-moment-of-life-is-unique-a-kiss-a-sunset-a-dance-a-joke-none/)

[Stephen Nachmanovitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-nachmanovitch/)

> [Every attempt we make is imperfect; yet each one of those imperfect attempts is an occasion for a delight unlike anything else on earth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-nachmanovitch/every-attempt-we-make-is-imperfect-yet-each-one-of-those-imperfect/)

[Stephen Nachmanovitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-nachmanovitch/)

> [An improviser does not operate from a formless vacuum, but from three billion years of organic evolution](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-nachmanovitch/an-improviser-does-not-operate-from-a-formless-vacuum-but-from-three/)

[Stephen Nachmanovitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-nachmanovitch/)

> [Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of ones chosen form.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-nachmanovitch/creative-work-is-play-it-is-free-speculation-using-materials-of-ones/)

[Stephen Nachmanovitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-nachmanovitch/)

> [Brahms once remarked that the mark of an artist is how much he throws away. Nature, the great creator, is always throwing things away.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-nachmanovitch/brahms-once-remarked-that-the-mark-of-an-artist-is-how-much-he-throws/)

[Stephen Nachmanovitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-nachmanovitch/)

> [If the art is created with the whole person, then the work will come out whole. Education must teach, reach, and vibrate the whole…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-nachmanovitch/if-the-art-is-created-with-the-whole-person-then-the-work-will-come/)

[Stephen Nachmanovitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-nachmanovitch/)

> [Play, creativity, art, spontaneity, all these experiences are their own rewards and are blocked when we perform for reward or punishment, profit or loss.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-nachmanovitch/play-creativity-art-spontaneity-all-these-experiences-are-their-own/)

[Stephen Nachmanovitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-nachmanovitch/)

> [Technique itself springs from play, because we can acquire technique only by the practice of practice, by persistently experimenting and playing with our tools…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-nachmanovitch/technique-itself-springs-from-play-because-we-can-acquire-technique/)

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