If my audience is moved, entertained, challenged, provoked, consoled, informed, inspired – or any combination of the above – then I feel I have been successful in doing my job.
Tag: interviews with musicians
James Francis Brown, composer
All music requires is an open mind and heart on the part of the listener, and that can’t be forced.
Jean Toussaint, saxophonist
Sing/play to your audience with head, heart and soul and never with anger or contempt. Make it a goal to exude love through music and try to learn as much as you can about the art form, including its history, and make it your mission to find a uniquely individual way to express your own identity through the idiom.
Nishla Smith, jazz singer
I’m a storyteller, I’m always looking for the invisible threads that tie things together.
Hayley Jenkins, composer
Music is a language and each performer views music through the possibilities of their instrument and technique; I enjoy having conversations about how best something should be played as there are often possibilities I wasn’t even aware of, and that is exciting.
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