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Improvisation is not the expression of accident but rather of the accumulated yearnings, dreams, and wisdom of our very soul.  –Yehudi Menuhin

inspired by Mickey Hart, Grateful Dead, The Magic of Music

Where I come from we say that rhythm is the soul of life, because the whole universe revolves around rhythm, and when we get out of rhythm, that’s when we get into trouble.  Babatunde Olatunji

Inspired by Mickey Hart, Grateful Dead, Spirit into Sound

All I know is, for every note, there is another note that melts it.  I just hear a sound coming into my head and hope to catch it with my hands.   Erroll Garner

inspired by Mickey Hart, Grateful Dead, Spirit and Music

When I’m singing, I’m inside of it…I feel, oh, like I feel when you’re first in love, when you’re first touching someone–chills, things slipping all over me… Janis Joplin

Inspired by Mickey Hart
Grateful Dead
The Magic of Music

I NEVER practice, I always play.  Wanda Landowska

inspired by Mickey Hart, Grateful Dead, Spirit and Music

The composer reveals the innermost being of the world and expresses the deepest wisdom in a language which his own reason does not understand; like a sleepwalker, who tells things of which he has no clear knowledge when he is awake.   Schopenhauer

inspired by Mickey Hart, Grateful Dead, The Magic of Music

When you play from your heart, all of a sudden there’s no gravity, you don’t feel the weight of the world, of bills, of anything. That’s why people love it.
–Carlos Santana

inspired by Mickey Hart
Grateful Dead
Spirit into Sound

The composer, as in old China, joins Heaven and Earth with threads of sounds. Alan Hovhaness

inspired by Mickey Hart
Grateful Dead
Spirit into Sound

Playing guitar is a sexual thing. It comes from the crotch, it comes from the heart, and it comes from the head–you don’t need to have muscles to play it. Lita Ford

inspired by Mickey Hart
Grateful Dead
Spirit into Sound