Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plow. The trick is just to wake thmem up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.
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What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.
I don't play an instrument - I just write in my head, and I usually hear fully formed songs. 'We Are Young' turned out so much like it was in my head. But it also exceeded all my expectations.
After every concert, I greet young people in the lobbies. And I see a huge surge of young people playing music.
Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.
The whole music world is based on the young, the very young people.
Parents and teachers, learn to listen, then listen to learn from children.
Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
It must be a hellish thing to know what's possible in music, to be hearing things all the time and not have an appropriate outlet for them.
I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.
It's a humbling thing, having kids. One of my sons came to rehearsals, and now he says Daddy's job is 'go play loud music.'
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