In Good Company — Episode 3

listening. So what brings a classical pianist to a coffee shop in the Lower East Side at 10 o'clock on a Tuesday night? I was walking. People don't walk in this neighborhood at this hour unless they live here or they're lost. Maybe I'm lost. Something. I don't know what it is. I just know I don't have it. That's vague. I know. Play something. Here? Yeah. That thing's been

there all night. Nobody's touched it. The owner lets me play when I'm around. He says it keeps people buying coffee. You're thinking too much. You're trying to say the perfect thing before you say it. But music isn't about the perfect thing. It's about the real thing. What if the real thing isn't good enough. That's not for you to decide. You put it out there. People decide. So, you want

to keep talking or do you want to play something together? I have a studio downtown. Piano, a real one, if you're interested. Are you inviting me to your place? I'm inviting you to work with me. I need a collaborator. You hear things I don't hear.