Originally Posted by
pj
That's a question with an ironic answer.
In music, before one learns an instrument and music theory, there isn't much you can do with it.
Once you HAVE learned it, the academics become a straight jacket... unless you can forget it again. The music has to come from a different place. It isn't my head that the good stuff comes from - it is my gut. I don't know how else to explain it. But I have to go through my head to get to my gut. Like oration... one cannot orate effectively if you are all wrapped up in the details of grammar and composition. You have to "forget" those things. Is that really what it is though? Perhaps it is just learning it and then handing it off to deeper levels, freeing up your conscious to be creative in a new context.
I'm going to start a spin-off thread from this one. As is so often the case with you, this thread about something you are pondering has acted as a catalyst to solidify something I've been thinking about for weeks... in an odd way.
Look for a thread, coming soon, called "No Why <> Know Why". It will be in philosophy.