The musical mystery is: How do you marry tuned percussion and voice? On a metaphorical level, everything that's really important - like the clouds, the sky and the earth - is a giant mystery.

Music gives the soul this inner self-expression, a voice. It gives the soul a sound, the sound of the Muse.

Life is about rhythm. We vibrate, our hearts are pumping blood, we are a rhythm machine, that’s what we are.

When the Grateful Dead needed a quality sound system to deliver our sonic payload, I learned electronics and speaker design.

Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning.

The point is that the arts are important enough to have influenced the greatest minds and talents we know. Albert Einstein said that if he were not a physicist, he would probably be a musician.

Everywhere you look on the planet people are using drums to alter consciousness.