“I’m amazed when someone sees the sculpture inside a rock while the rest of us just see a rock. I say “hell yes” to the architects who imagine the spaces we will one day live in. And a round of applause for the stylist who sees what hair to cut to make me look respectable for a couple of weeks. I bow low and fast in the direction of those who paint amazing things on the ceilings of chapels, make life-changing movies, or deliver a stand-up routine that recognizes the humor in the mundane. What all those artists have in common is that they point out things that were always there, always dotting the sky. Now we can take it in and live what we missed.”
― A Dream about Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons
― A Dream about Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons
“People often ask me if it’s scary to make up a song onstage, dictating parts, on the fly, to a full orchestra. Well, no. It doesn’t occur to me to worry about that. I have a jazz musician’s view of mistakes. If you play a wrong note, you can always make the same mistake again on purpose and make it sound right. Insistence on the mistake can be quite musical. Indeed, “once is a mistake, twice is jazz,” a quote often attributed to Miles Davis.”
― A Dream about Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons
― A Dream about Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons
“So sure, I had to dig out of a little insecurity hole vocally, but I don’t blame my parents for this. We are all a work in progress.”
― A Dream about Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons
― A Dream about Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons
“You always notice the holidays more when you feel the most alone.”
― A Dream about Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons
― A Dream about Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons
“As you get closer to finding your voice, you’ll feel resistance. You’ll want to retreat. It’s scary to just be you. You may notice that criticism from others starts to sting more, because now it’s personal. You’re being seen and addressed directly, not through the sunglasses you finally removed. But once you’ve relaxed, you can apply the effort to the important part—that which projects and amplifies the expression of the real you. That’s technique.”
― A Dream about Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons
― A Dream about Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons
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