I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice theory humanities. And nowadays music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.

And my career the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.

Session musicians kind of respected me because what I was talking about made sense. That all came from an education. Believe me education does you more good. Maybe that's the reason I've been around so long.

I'm a huge fan of music in schools and music education because that's how I grew up.

I have a greater goal - to empower young people through music education.

I was really fortunate growing up to have a broad musical education. My parents listened to all kinds of music rock soul Motown jazz Frank Sinatra everything.

My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table I had a tremendous music education.

When I was four years old my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.

When I was a young musician the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.

I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.

Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings the dreams hopes of the people.

I think what every skater dreams of is not only skating the best program they can possibly skate but y'know having the crowd roar at the end and it was just so loud I couldn't even hear my music.

Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.

You only get one album. You only get one single. You get one shot in music. But I have a million different dreams. Why can't I go out and try to achieve them all? Who are you to say I can't?

When I began to choreograph and find my way pulling other artists' dreams out and changing music in a visual way there was still a part of me that had something more to say. There was still a desire to rock a stage and ultimately perform the eight count of my dream but there was a lot of insecurity there.

Things have gone beyond my wildest expectations and dreams and I feel like I've been given so many blessings in my life between my friendship with the guys in the band our wonderful audience being able to play this music and then my family.

I know it sounds corny but when you follow your dreams it happens. And if it's music take it seriously.

Dreams do come true even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.

I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel folk and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.

I've come up through art school through painting through graphic design through advertising through TV commercials and music video. I've designed books built billboards matchbooks corporate identities. I continuously paint I've done conceptual art pictures.

My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians.

We have no general conceptual thrust for the band other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are novel they are probably things we have discovered by accident or investigation rather than by design.