I started EWF because I had a vision, and music was playing in my head that I wanted to bring through. What I had in mind was exactly what Earth, Wind & Fire became.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Earth, Wind & Fire was something new. I wanted to bring something innovative to the music. It was out of a desire to create excitement with music that was pleasurable to play and listen to.
I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music.
The fact that I wasn't expected to read music at all and was absorbing everything by ear... it had a huge affect on the kind of musician that I became.
Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am.
I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas.
I developed this fantasy world. I found that that was much more fun and more interesting and exciting than real life was to me. Then, once I got the guitar going when I was a teenager, I set sail for the direction I've been in my whole life.
Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed.
Had I not become entangled with music, I would have become an author much earlier.
I wanted to explore the connections between different kinds of music.
I'd always been on the giving end of music and creating.
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