Let’s try to get together and make something good. John Andrew Rice thought there shouldn’t be a winner and a loser in a debate – he believed it was about finding the truth, as opposed to being a contest. We don’t have to be putting that on somebody else. We know how successful we are with trying to do what we’re trying to do. Instead of trying to keep score we should just be helping each other. "The worthwhile struggle is the interior one, not against one’s fellows but against one’s ignorance and clumsiness.” Whatever cannot be expressed in words cannot be learned through words. “There are things learned through observation that cannot be learned any other way. I love what John Andrew Rice, one of the founders of Black Mountain College, said: This whole idea that music is about competition – as if someone is better than someone else, or this instrument is harder than that one, like what are you talking about?! (Image credit: Anthony Pidgeon/Redferns) 8.
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