I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both perfectly normal and crazy.
I hate the way chorus boxes sound
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.
I am ashamed of a human race that can continue to allow the sordid ambitions of politicized groups who genuinely feel that right is on their side, and can therefore instigate such atrocities in the name of their own sense of right and wrong.
The important thing isn't the soundness or otherwise of the argument, but for it to make you think.
I am not saying renounce sex, I am saying transform it. It need not remain just biological: bring some spirituality to it. While making love, meditate too. While making love, be prayerful. Love should not be just a physical act; pour your soul into it.
Human trafficking is a scourge, a crime against the whole of humanity. It is time to join forces and work together to free its victims and to eradicate this crime that affects all of us, from individual families to the worldwide community.