But I have to say, playing long peices (like the Don Juan fantasy) while you're having a panic attack, or have a fever will make you do some really amazing things.
Maybe being healthy is overrated?Maybe there's some credence to the idea of people whose lives are racked with misery making the best art?
Has anybody else found that the cold virus (not influenza) seems to do something to the brain which enhances the creative faculty and playing generally ? I am very sure that this is so, at least for me, but people have looked askance when I have suggested it. Regrettably the benefit does not extend to physical technique, as these viruses often cause pains and so forth in muscles and ligaments. Having probably had more than my share of these otherwise annoying complaints in fifty-nine years, I am quite certain of this peculiar mental effect.