Sneak Peek: Revisiting Dave Holland Podcast

Dave Holland: I think the storyteller as a composer is usually a mood, an impression, sometimes a narrative that you’re trying to get across, … You need to play from your life experience. And I think as a young player, you’re still coming to terms with learning the mechanics of the music and the language and you don’t necessarily connect it up with your life in the same way. And you start to realize that the notes on their own don’t really mean that much, that they need to connect up with some feeling that you have and with some story or some aspect of your life story that you feel and the good and the bad, all of those things are present. And I know, for me, that the things that I’ve been through in my life have certainly helped give me an emotional store of things to draw on and to express, you know. And you don’t necessarily think of them in a conscious way, but when you play, you connect up with your feelings.