All we can do is go about our work. But we can have a goal. We can have a dream.
Sense of community was really fostered by Larry Laurenzano, who was a great educator.
One negative person can create a miserable office environment for everyone else.
Negative thoughts are the nails that build a prison of failure.
I heard these stories [about musicians from my mother] and somehow music, it was my understanding what my father had done. I didn't know it was misinformation. It sort of inwardly in my psyche laid the template for music being affiliated with my father and my family.
Ernie Hayes, Jimmy Lewis, and either Belton Evans or Khalil Mahdi on drums [were in Sweet Basil]. All those guys really took care of me.