French would say "Qui se sent morveux, se mouche"
but who cares about the french anyway, ha.
Listen, all I tried to say in my previous post, is that simplicity is the hallmark of mastery. Study any field, music, sports, business, whatever you want, and you will find that the very best can crystallize the most complex into simple statements. But that simplicity is foolishness to many, who need complexity to feel assured that what they are learning is real, or worthwhile.
I'll give you an example from Jazz. The great Joe Pass said once that he only thinks of three kinds of scales, major, minor, dominant 7th. All his lines are derived from the three scales, although he does tinker with the altered dominant a lot. While others, say, hey play a whole tone over the flat 5th on a V - I resolution, Joe would simply say, learn a line, love it, hum it and play it. If you can't hum it, you shouldn't play it. Now that's mastery.
