There can be no doubt that, with the United Kingdom, we will lose a very market-oriented voice.
Music is all about wanting to be better at it.
To Toronto City Council: The Sam The Record Man store and sign were important fixtures in Toronto's musical landscape as well as its Civic history. Sadly, all that remains now are our memories of the store and this magnificant neon sign. Ryerson and they City of Toronto should absolutely preserve what myself and many of its citizens consider to be an important symbol of our past and of that store's contributions to our culture.
If you have some magical chemistry that actually find the music you make compelling, that is a big bonus.
It's a battle between record company, between producer and between mastering engineer. Because the louder you make your record in a digital process, the more dynamics are squished out of it. Nobody knows exactly what happens, but the dynamics in the performance disappear, and everything is at the same volume.
So, I really don't consider myself a fabulous keyboard player.
I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.
It is always dangerous to underestimate anybody.
In the times in which we live it is far too restricting to say that art can only be found in art galleries and not touch people's everyday lives. I want to use any means that are necessary to communicate with people what I feel about things. There are no rules. And if there are rules, then you may as well break them.
Life's sloppy. . . You think you know how tomorrow's going to be, you've made your plans, everything is set in place, and then the unimaginable happens. Life catches you by surprise. It always does. But there's good mixed in with the bad. It's there. You just have to recognize it.
Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is that we shut up.