I never work until I have a deadline. You have to fit so much in a given day that you just don't get serious until you know when the deadline is.
I've always loved musical theater. It's a bit of a family tradition.
Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.
We want to have a spontaneous adventure. You can't plan an adventure, or it ceases to be one.
Ideally the point of music is community, not the player. Musicians are simply channels to link the audience to the music and to each other.
There are no Jerry Garcias coming down the pike, anymore than there is a Jimi Hendrix or Bob Marley. They are all at the same level - the highest level that you strive to get to as a musician. Me and my friends - we'll all be long dead, people will still be trying to dig into what Jerry Garcia did.
It's like you're surfing. . . The same wave that can be a source of pain can be a beautiful flowing grace and source of power. It's all a matter of how you respond to it.
In all determinations of morality, this circumstance of public utility is ever principally in view; and wherever disputes arise, either in philosophy or common life, concerning the bounds of duty, the questions cannot, by any means, be decided with greater certainty, than by ascertaining, on any side, the true interests of mankind. If any false opinion, embraced from appearances, has been found to prevail; as soon as farther experience and sounder reasoning have given us juster notions of human affairs, we retract our first sentiment, and adjust anew the boundaries of moral good and evil.
If you want truth you should begin by giving it.
And the very fact of how you speak somehow influences who you are. The way you move, the way you think, it seeps into your being, and it's quite hard to really break that down entirely.
Many trees planted around a home reduce the need for air conditioning.