You have to be committed to your own discovery of your journey. To uncover…to dis-cover…the discovery of who you are as person…as a musician…as an artist…as a creative being. And don’t feel that you haveContinue reading

If sound is music and came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound. If the sound is effective, it should actually have a chemical – some sort of physiological – effect on theContinue reading

Kinship doesn’t come from skin color. It’s in your soul and in your mind. – Dave Brubeck

What I’m dealing with is so vast and great that it can’t be called the truth. It’s above the truth. – Sun Ra

Music is a verb. – Ornette Coleman

When you fly to New York, sometimes they put you on hold and just go round and around in a holding pattern. Sometimes in a concert, i feel other spirits in a holding pattern thatContinue reading

The key concept is to open your ears. Music can be here and there, anywhere surrounding you.~ Ryuichi Sakamoto

Genius is determined by the context of ones contribution within their generation. What did you do that was outstanding? And based on the limitations of the sounds you can’t produce genius. You can produce greatness,Continue reading

“There are notes between notes, you know.” ~ Sarah Vaughan

I believe that most of what was said of God was in reality said of that Spirit whose body is Earth. ~ George Russell