If something doesn't work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn't going to work.

It's odd that there is a high level of appreciation of nature. There is the aesthetic side that really loves nature and beauty.

Music is a universal language insofar as you don't need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music. It doesn't matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is. The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.

To me, that's the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That's the basic, ultimate freedom.

In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.

I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like.

If you assume you haven't learned anything yet, there's no reason your playing can't stay dynamic all your life.