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Music is great because it moves us.
It moves our bodies, our emotions, our minds... it even moves our intentions and focus. And if you subscribe to the belief, as I do, that everything is simply energy (in one form or another), then you realize that everything and everyone is connected. We are literally sound in motion - molecules 'bumping into' each other and influencing each other.

The whole WORLD is sound.
Scientists say atoms have a 'sound', planets have a 'sound'... even the universe has a 'sound'. (Maybe it's the sound of God sighing...).

To move and be moved -
This is the primary thing we are all searching for, is it not? To be moved! Emotionally, mentally, physically, romantically... to even move our physical locale from time to time, (poignant, as I just travelled 2,700 miles across country). But perhaps most important - to move our sometimes fixed and stuck perceptions. If we are not moved... we are bored, lonely, restless and empty.

Music - indeed all of the arts - has this capability. I believe this is what draws you - and I - in.
It is my hope that you are well moved...
"I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give a picture to the listener
of the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe.
That's what music is to me -
it's just another way of saying this is a big, beautiful universe we live in, that's been given to us,
and here's an example of just how magnificent and encompassing it is.
That's what I would like to do.
I think that's one of the greatest things you can do in life,
and we all try to do it in some way.
The musician's way is through his music....
It's a reflection of the universe. Like having life in miniature.
You just take a situation in life or an emotion you know and put it into music."

John Coltrane

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