“It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.”
“What one has to do usually can be done.”
“What is to give light must endure the burning.”
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.”
“A little simplification would [...]
Category Archive for 'Thoughts'
“I like the man who cultivates poetry for self-instruction, not for lucre, and the man who practices music for pleasure, not for gain”
- Ibn Muqla
Many years ago I was playing a friends homemade fretless banjo and a young boy who was listening asked if I could also play a “real” banjo.
I told him that the banjo I was playing was real and if it wasn’t how could I possibly be playing it?
His response was something like “You know what [...]
A beautiful snowy day. I get to spend the day in the shop. In a few hours I will have set up another prototype dulcimer and will be playing it. It’s a nice way to start off the month.
I go back into the studio in a week or so to record more tracks for the album I’m working on.
I have a question. Do you prefer purchasing music on CD or by downloading? Let me know!
My plan is to make the album and each individual track available as a very high quality MP3. [...]
I just got home from an afternoon in the studio. I will soon have some sound bites of what I’m up to on these pages.
The process of recording always leaves me with mixed feelings; on one hand I find it creatively inspiring, on the other hand I am sometimes uncomfortable with the thought of freezing [...]
