I could do without many things with no hardship-you are not one of them.
Its more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.
My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener.
One very fundamental thing has not changed and I realized that it will never change. . . is that I really need to go home and practice.
Listening is the key to everything good in music.
Learning to play is mostly about learning to hear, and learning to really listen deeply to sound in a musical way is a lifetime's worth of work.
People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a Jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
Give your best to the challenges. And what you get will be even better.
With us, when you speak of ‘the river,’ though there be many, you mean always the same one, the great river, the shifting, unappeasable god of the country, feared and loved the Mississippi.
My passion is to tell stories that reflect humanity.
Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information