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Play It Like It's Music — 117 episodes · page 1 of 2
Not really like surfing, but sort of.
On music and structure
Singing loud and saying everything
Venice: a Voice Memo
Time flies
"Hey man I thought you were a Cellist."
Tour Announcement (aka the dipping back in of the toes)
"The thing that I enjoy the most"
"A safe place to deal with my problems"
"It's important to find things that give you pleasure in life"
Creativity is in the cracks.
"Music is the first language that made sense to me"
"It's part of the fabric of my family and my community"
"Music is the most powerful method for advancing culture."
Stephen A. Thomas
New album out today!
"To connect with other people about things that matter"
"My spirit always has to make music"
"It's part of my DNA"
"It connects me to everything beyond the human experience"
"Try not to have any shame about what you do"
"To sing is to pray"
"It's irresistible to me, I wouldn't want it any other way"
"It's all for something"
"It's always a peak life experience"
"I love creating something that wasn't there"
"The best way to express myself, and to understand the world"
"I love to blame it on inspiration"
"Experience is important, listening is important"
"It's in me naturally. When I talk, I'm talking Music"
"It sings the songs of our life"
"I can always be learning"
"I don't think I've ever not been able to make music"
"Music helps me keep my sanity"
"It's the most therapeutic tool I have"
"It fills a void... it's emotionally working things out"
"The consistency and the showing up" + our New Playlist
"Vibration is at the heart of the universe"
Episode 50 breather.
"It's in my bones"
"I love the feeling of it"
"I don't remember ever being without it"
"It makes me feel the most like myself"
"It's the same as breathing oxygen."
"There's so much that only music can say"
"When you put it out, that love is there."
"There's a tenacity that it takes to do this."
"It actually makes me feel good."
"I know I'm not the only person to benefit from it"
"I make music because I haven't lost hope"
"I make music because I have something to say"
"I wish I weren't number 1, I'd like to be number 10"
"The thing I was born to do" + time travel with Carmen McRae
"To touch the heart, that's the goal"
"The best feeling in the world"
"Be prepared to live in a state of uncertainty"
"Don't die trying to sound like someone else"
"It's just what I do."
"This is the revolutionary thing I can do right now"
"Anger as a turbo boost"
"Burn everything except the truth"
"I just burn to make music"
"Pros can smell a dumpster fire a mile away..."
"Know your why" + In Memoriam
"It's about feelings!"
"The person who says 'yes!' and knows I'll figure it out... that's the professional."
"Make A Thing, Make It Nice!"
“I live my life as a gigantic middle finger to my medical condition”
"I would much rather have the milkman at my concert."
Play It Like It's Music 020: Ann Courtney
Around the block and back
"Laughing And Laughing"
“I got on the 8:00 bus to come to New York, but the drum machine was on the 7:30”
"Never Stop Experimenting"
"The audience doesn't care, they just want to see a gig!"
"It was in me from the beginning, but it was repressed."
"You just have to sit in a certain place."
"I was a freak. Kids like us are freaks."
“When I was young there were a lot of sixteen-year-old cellists...
"That song brought me so much joy. If I could play it, maybe I could replicate the joy.”
"Joy is kind of self illumination that allows people to see the world in better ways."
"We serve the public by digging down into something that's beyond words."
"What I lack in skill I make up for in discipline"
"I play my show and then I'm off to two other shows. I can never get enough of feeling enveloped by improvisation."
"You have to do it, like you have to do it all the time. That's the only way your thing is gonna take off."
"I don't know what I would do if I didn't play. It'd be very strange existence."
"I saw a church band, and then I saw Funkadelic. That was it."
"If you never do it, you can never say you failed at it."
❤️ Serviam
Lazy Cello pt 2
Lazy Cello
abandon feeling smart
Ancestry and True Sounds
Spectrums
the gift of shred
creating headroom
Are you there, Ennio? It's me, Trevor
the cultivation of small delightful actions
A guy inside my head
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