Awakening is about liberating yourself from the prison that is the world of the mind and daring to be here as all that you are.
I expect the audience to come up to my level.
To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel not the way others think you should feel.
If one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather limited scope when compared to the rest of music in the world.
I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.
It is my belief that there is a tendency among the so-called 'modern' or 'hip' jazz musicians to consider styles other that their own, 'corny', and it is my contention that in actuality it is these musicians who are producing that which in future years perceptive critics will deem 'corny'.
You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.
I see God every day. . . For God is in everything I see.
Anyone who takes the Bible seriously agrees that God hates suffering. Jesus spent most of his time relieving it. But when being healed becomes the only goal - 'I'm not letting go until I get what I want' - it's a problem.
It's just people trying to get on TV, not like it's really going to do them any good since people can just watch me.