Music is what you notice when it's no longer in your presence.

The Unity Band project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.

If you plan on continuing a tradition, it might be a good idea to find out just what tradition it is that you intend to continue.

I just have never seen anyone build anything significant in any field without having a deep and detailed sense of what they are building on.

Learning to play is mostly about learning to hear, and learning to really listen deeply to sound in a musical way is a lifetime's worth of work.

I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound

I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly