Johnny Simmons Quotes

I give everything far too much thought. If you think you know what you're doing, then you can kind of relax, and then you can improvise and play and just enjoy the day rather than be chasing the lines.

You can't improvise if you are tense. Or thinking too much. You have to really let it go.

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

Just stay present in the moment, and what will come will come.

I live in the present moment.

I love what I do: there is no pressure. The music doesn't like pressure.

I don't look ahead. I'm right here with you. It's a good way to be.

Now I don't put things in the boxes anymore. I'm just focusing on right now.

In my personal opinion, you miss out on the beauty of the moment if you go in planning what the moment is. It's like having a vacation too jam-packed with activities. You miss all of the sunsets.

If you come on a band tense, you're going to play tense. If you come a little bit foolish, act just a little bit foolish, and let yourself go, better ideas will come.

Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, 'Don't try.' That fits the writing, too. I don't try; I just type.

Sometimes I try to just sit at home and do something calmer and simpler and just be in my life. You know, not trying to solve a lot of things at once.

I try to just stay in the present moment as much as possible.

The best stuff - the most interesting stuff - usually happens when I allow myself to be in the moment and working from that space.

I try to not to overanalyze, not to watch myself too much, but to be present in life and in my art. I'm so glad it comes off in that way.

It's good to be prepared, but spontaneity is very important - just to let yourself go and let it be whatever it is.

Take each day as it comes and focus on the present moment.

The best things happen when you're not overthinking it.

There's a thing about trying too hard, which I think is in all forms, which is if you really try to do things really well, you can get to a less good place than if you just let go and let it fly. Especially in creativity.

Don't always worry what your next line is going to be.

There is nothing I have to do, nowhere I have to go, and no way I have to be except exactly the way I am being right now.

Meditation practice is neither holding on nor avoiding; it is a settling back into the moment, opening to what is there.

the beauty of doing nothing

So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.

The command is "Do no work." Just make space. Attend to what is around you. Learn that you don't have to DO to BE. accept the grace of doing nothing. Stay with it until you stop jerking and squirming.