Per Mutations I-IV, 2025
“In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.”
― Vincent Van Gogh
Romance Evermore (Four Directions, 2025)
“Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart..”
- Pablo Casals
“Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.”
- Oscar Wilde
BEYOND 2025 #1
“Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize.”
- Napoléon Bonaparte
“Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.”
- Ludwig van Beethoven
": to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.” – Captain James T. Kirk
Mirror Imaging (ROUND TRIP, 2025)
"Humans are inherently biased. When it comes to something as deeply ingrained into our being as politics or religion, we simply cannot help ourselves.
The problem does not lie with our beliefs, but when we use our beliefs to interpret events around us. This is a cognitive trap that in the world of intelligence analysis has been called ‘mirror-imaging.’ " https://www.mic.com/articles/76/mirror-imaging-the-problem-of-bias
MLK 2025 #1
“Will we continue to march to the drumbeat of conformity and respectability, or will we, listening to the beat of a more distant drum, move to its echoing sounds? Will we march only to the music of time, or will we, risking criticism and abuse, march to the soulsaving music of eternity?”
― Martin Luther King, Jr. , Strength to Love
MLK: Creative Maladjustment
“The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.”
― Martin Luther King, Jr.
3 TRANE (Next Stop)
“Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.”
- Plato, The Republic
“You've got to dig it to dig it, you dig?”
- Thelonious Monk
3 TRANE (2024, 2nd Edition)
“You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.”
- Billie Holiday
“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.”
- Henry David Thoreau
Debora, Amora (Re-Decoration #6, 2024)
“Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!”
- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
“I just don't hear anyone else making the music I'm making in my head, so I'll have to do it myself.”
- Bob Dylan
Re-Decoration #4
“Art is how we decorate space;
Music is how we decorate time.”
- Jean Michel Basquiat
“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”
- Aaron Copland
“Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning ... except its own.”
- Leonard Bernstein, The Joy of Music
Re-Decoration #5
“Art is how we decorate space;
Music is how we decorate time.”
- Jean Michel Basquiat
Debora, Amora (A Capella, 2024)
“Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.”
- Lao Tzu
“Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances. ”
- Maya Angelou
