How can you put on a meaningful drama when, every fifteen minutes, proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper?
I do read music, but I prefer playing from the heart.
It's a matter of choosing what is most important to you and putting that first. Once you have recognized your true purpose in life, this becomes much easier.
The calm mind allows one to connect with the inner self, the Soul, the very source of our being. That's where the music lives. That's where my music comes from.
Now that I am much older, I have had a number of sax players tell me I was responsible for them playing sax. Some of them I have admired over the years.
I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead.
As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I heard this saxophone on the radio the other day and I knew it was you. I don't know the song, but I know it was you on sax. '
Topcats often begin as underdogs.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
No one is you, and that is your power.
I thought I could make out Jamie's Highland screech, but that was likely imagination; they all sounded equally demented.