It Used To Be That Creative Music

Creative Arts Raise A Person To Another Level Of Consciousness As If You Could Imagine Life Before Words.

The Artist Is Very Lucky, Because In An Art Form That's Spontaneous Like Jazz, That's When You Really See Your True Self. And That's Why, When I Put Down My Instrument, That's When The Challenge Starts, Because To Learn How To Be That Kind Of Human Being At That Level That You Are When You're Playing - That's The Key, That's The Hard Part.

In The Midst Of Creating, A Person Is Raised To Another Level Of Consciousness That Doesn't Have That Much To Do With Everyday Thinking. It's As If You Could Imagine Life Before There Were Words.

It Used To Be That Creative Music Was Most Of The Music That You Heard Back In The '30s And '40s, And Now It's Like 3 Percent. So, Its Kind Of A Struggle Getttin' It Out There.

I Told My Students The Other Day In Class, Which Is About The Spirituality And Creativity As Much As It Is About Music. I Said, 'if You're Walking Down The Street And You See A Baby Carriage, And There's A Baby In The Carriage; You Look Down And Your Eyes Meet The Eyes Of The Baby. The Baby Looks At You: That's The Kind Of Moment You're In When You're Playing.