Adam Arcuragi – HuffPost 2.1.12

Mike Ragogna: What Advice do you have for new artists?

Adam Arcuragi: Listen. One of the finest skills a person can have is to be able to really listen. Even though the auditory impulses coming into your skull are involuntarily culled and sent to the brain, real listening is an inactive thing that you have to work hard on to become skilled in. An old jazz player told me once, “If you can’t hear what I’m playing, then you are playing too loud.” Draw people in by listening and being aware. The more people that are engaged, the greater the thing is that is greater than the sum of its parts.