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John Powers

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1528 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Fresh Air
Jon Batiste Almost Got Kicked Out Of Juilliard

There's a deep sense of connectivity that you have. with your soulmate, whether you meet somebody who just gets you, you look them in the eye and they see you and you see them and then you come inches away from the veil, you almost lose that person.

Fresh Air
Jon Batiste Almost Got Kicked Out Of Juilliard

There's a deep sense of connectivity that you have. with your soulmate, whether you meet somebody who just gets you, you look them in the eye and they see you and you see them and then you come inches away from the veil, you almost lose that person.

Fresh Air
Jon Batiste Almost Got Kicked Out Of Juilliard

And that's in the back of your mind when you're doing everything, when you're on television, when you're accepting an award that everyone in the world is telling you you should want more than anything else. And that is a force that it ransacks your psyche in a way that I didn't realize the power of creativity as an antidote until then.

Fresh Air
Jon Batiste Almost Got Kicked Out Of Juilliard

And that's in the back of your mind when you're doing everything, when you're on television, when you're accepting an award that everyone in the world is telling you you should want more than anything else. And that is a force that it ransacks your psyche in a way that I didn't realize the power of creativity as an antidote until then.

Fresh Air
Jon Batiste Almost Got Kicked Out Of Juilliard

And that's in the back of your mind when you're doing everything, when you're on television, when you're accepting an award that everyone in the world is telling you you should want more than anything else. And that is a force that it ransacks your psyche in a way that I didn't realize the power of creativity as an antidote until then.

Fresh Air
Jon Batiste Almost Got Kicked Out Of Juilliard

And through our shared creativity, there was a lot of light that we created together and apart from each other. I sent her lullabies. She would paint, as you see in the documentary. She couldn't write. Her vision was blurred from all the medication. this incredible, renowned writer, but she couldn't write, so she began to paint.

Fresh Air
Jon Batiste Almost Got Kicked Out Of Juilliard

And through our shared creativity, there was a lot of light that we created together and apart from each other. I sent her lullabies. She would paint, as you see in the documentary. She couldn't write. Her vision was blurred from all the medication. this incredible, renowned writer, but she couldn't write, so she began to paint.

Fresh Air
Jon Batiste Almost Got Kicked Out Of Juilliard

And through our shared creativity, there was a lot of light that we created together and apart from each other. I sent her lullabies. She would paint, as you see in the documentary. She couldn't write. Her vision was blurred from all the medication. this incredible, renowned writer, but she couldn't write, so she began to paint.

Fresh Air
Jon Batiste Almost Got Kicked Out Of Juilliard

And just that practice alone was a form of transformative healing power and light that gave me the motivation to be able to leave her, because I didn't want to leave her aside.

Fresh Air
Jon Batiste Almost Got Kicked Out Of Juilliard

And just that practice alone was a form of transformative healing power and light that gave me the motivation to be able to leave her, because I didn't want to leave her aside.

Fresh Air
Jon Batiste Almost Got Kicked Out Of Juilliard

And just that practice alone was a form of transformative healing power and light that gave me the motivation to be able to leave her, because I didn't want to leave her aside.

Fresh Air
Jon Batiste Almost Got Kicked Out Of Juilliard

Exactly. And it's funny to say, going to a Grammy ceremony where you're nominated 11 times is work, but it puts things in perspective. But for me at that time, creativity was the power that allowed for us to stay connected and for me to have the will to go out and do all the things that you saw me doing at that time.

Fresh Air
Jon Batiste Almost Got Kicked Out Of Juilliard

Exactly. And it's funny to say, going to a Grammy ceremony where you're nominated 11 times is work, but it puts things in perspective. But for me at that time, creativity was the power that allowed for us to stay connected and for me to have the will to go out and do all the things that you saw me doing at that time.

Fresh Air
Jon Batiste Almost Got Kicked Out Of Juilliard

Exactly. And it's funny to say, going to a Grammy ceremony where you're nominated 11 times is work, but it puts things in perspective. But for me at that time, creativity was the power that allowed for us to stay connected and for me to have the will to go out and do all the things that you saw me doing at that time.

Fresh Air
Jon Batiste Almost Got Kicked Out Of Juilliard

Oh, wow. Yeah, so... These were originals, and they were just as the paper. They were daily. I would send them, and she would have her laptop playing these lullabies that I would send. I would record them on Logic, which is a software program on a laptop, and I would send them. She would listen to them on loop as she painted. One of them became a song.

Fresh Air
Jon Batiste Almost Got Kicked Out Of Juilliard

Oh, wow. Yeah, so... These were originals, and they were just as the paper. They were daily. I would send them, and she would have her laptop playing these lullabies that I would send. I would record them on Logic, which is a software program on a laptop, and I would send them. She would listen to them on loop as she painted. One of them became a song.

Fresh Air
Jon Batiste Almost Got Kicked Out Of Juilliard

Oh, wow. Yeah, so... These were originals, and they were just as the paper. They were daily. I would send them, and she would have her laptop playing these lullabies that I would send. I would record them on Logic, which is a software program on a laptop, and I would send them. She would listen to them on loop as she painted. One of them became a song.

Fresh Air
Jon Batiste Almost Got Kicked Out Of Juilliard

That's in the world called butterfly, but there are dozens of these lullabies. But butterfly started like this.

Fresh Air
Jon Batiste Almost Got Kicked Out Of Juilliard

That's in the world called butterfly, but there are dozens of these lullabies. But butterfly started like this.

Fresh Air
Jon Batiste Almost Got Kicked Out Of Juilliard

That's in the world called butterfly, but there are dozens of these lullabies. But butterfly started like this.