“To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.”― Igor Stravinsky

"If you're in the middle of the ocean with no flippers and no life preserver and you hear a helicopter, this is music. You have to adjust to your needs at the moment." — Tom Waits

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. ― Plato

Have created more than 500 original pieces and charge nothing (they aren't that good LOL) and share hoping to bring tranquility and peace to those in this stressful world. That is my "pay".

"One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz." Lou Reed.

"The Beautiful South have split up due to musical similarities. The band would like to thank everyone for their 19 wonderful years in music." (Press Statement Jan 2007)

If music be the food of love, play on. ― William Shakespeare

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. ― Friedrich Nietzsche

I wish they’d had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would’ve been straightened out.

"A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence".

Here's something an old lady in a wheelchair at a nursing home told me.  I had played a singalong for them, afterwards she came up to the piano to thank me and said this with such a genuine smile.  I never forgot it…