Why Should Artists Rehearse for What Goes Wrong?

David Lee Roth says you rehearse for the things that go wrong, not the things that go right. He has always liked rehearsal better than the show, because the show goes wrong: the elephant is late, the light falls, and the foot pedal electrocutes the elephant. If it goes right, there is nothing to rehearse it for.

Robert Vargas makes his process accessible, so people watching a mural stay with it even when they do not speak the same language. Alex Van Halen says the real trick in music is to do it without saying anything, through the vibration of the playing itself. When his brother Eddie Van Halen played, they never talked about how or what they were going to do. Eddie just played.