Originally posted by Christoph

You can't be creative unless you know what the hell you're doing.

Wow, sorry, but that the biggest mistake I have seen written on this board. Creativity and knowledge are two different stuff, and usually, there are two kinds of people. Those who create, and don't understand what they have done (Allan HOLDSWORTH is one of them, as Django) and people who try to understand what they have done (musicologists, and 95 percent of musicians worldwide)

Mc Laughlin put it this way 'learn everything, then forget it all'
Creativity doesn't involve knowledge, analysis does. Musicians are not analysts...