"The easiest way to do art is to dispense with success and failure altogether and just get on with it," says Stephen Nachmanovich in his book, Free Play.1 A person who is not afraid to die, knows how to live. A person who is not afraid to fail, succeeds. And a person who is not afraid to sound terrible may sound great. It isn’t guaranteed, because there are other factors involved - but this essential element must be there.
