A lot of it is just, knuckling under and, what’s the right analogy? Man, you just gotta dig harder and slow it down. Slowing stuff down is the biggest thing. You can see kind of a recurring theme here. My desire to create works of quality at a certain rate is in direct conflict with the best possible way to achieve those goals, which is to slow things down and to really learn to not skip any steps.
Kurt Elling on The Third Story with Leo Sidran
It’s so important to recognize the conflict, and then to negotiate a dance between those two opposite pulls: speed things up and create more art vs. slow things down and don’t skip any steps.