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John Powers

πŸ‘€ Speaker
1581 total appearances

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Fresh Air
Jon Batiste Almost Got Kicked Out Of Juilliard

Oh, well, you know, there's something about the themes that Beethoven was able to

Fresh Air
Jon Batiste Almost Got Kicked Out Of Juilliard

Oh, well, you know, there's something about the themes that Beethoven was able to

Fresh Air
Jon Batiste Almost Got Kicked Out Of Juilliard

No, no. It's something about the themes he was able to manifest that are all sitting right there. It's pre-written by the divine source or the creator. It's just sitting there in the divine stream of consciousness waiting for someone to pull it down. And he was a vessel for so many of those things that we all feel and we all want to hear, but nobody had played yet. Just that theme of thinking about

Fresh Air
Jon Batiste Almost Got Kicked Out Of Juilliard

No, no. It's something about the themes he was able to manifest that are all sitting right there. It's pre-written by the divine source or the creator. It's just sitting there in the divine stream of consciousness waiting for someone to pull it down. And he was a vessel for so many of those things that we all feel and we all want to hear, but nobody had played yet. Just that theme of thinking about

Fresh Air
Jon Batiste Almost Got Kicked Out Of Juilliard

No, no. It's something about the themes he was able to manifest that are all sitting right there. It's pre-written by the divine source or the creator. It's just sitting there in the divine stream of consciousness waiting for someone to pull it down. And he was a vessel for so many of those things that we all feel and we all want to hear, but nobody had played yet. Just that theme of thinking about

Fresh Air
Jon Batiste Almost Got Kicked Out Of Juilliard

a minor chord, you know? And the second inversion was... Just that idea is so simple, it seems like it would be right under our nose, but the way he was able to pull it down for all time is what's exciting for me about his music in general. It has all these things that are so universal, so hardwired into our mainframe, and when you hear it, Now that to me sounds like blues.

Fresh Air
Jon Batiste Almost Got Kicked Out Of Juilliard

a minor chord, you know? And the second inversion was... Just that idea is so simple, it seems like it would be right under our nose, but the way he was able to pull it down for all time is what's exciting for me about his music in general. It has all these things that are so universal, so hardwired into our mainframe, and when you hear it, Now that to me sounds like blues.

Fresh Air
Jon Batiste Almost Got Kicked Out Of Juilliard

a minor chord, you know? And the second inversion was... Just that idea is so simple, it seems like it would be right under our nose, but the way he was able to pull it down for all time is what's exciting for me about his music in general. It has all these things that are so universal, so hardwired into our mainframe, and when you hear it, Now that to me sounds like blues.

Fresh Air
Jon Batiste Almost Got Kicked Out Of Juilliard

That feeling is connected to the human condition. It is the human condition made into sound. It's something about his music that is always reflective of our collective state and how we deal with our internal world and how we either transcend or how we fall into despair and how we then come back up again like a phoenix it just is it's connected to something that's very very fundamental in humanity

Fresh Air
Jon Batiste Almost Got Kicked Out Of Juilliard

That feeling is connected to the human condition. It is the human condition made into sound. It's something about his music that is always reflective of our collective state and how we deal with our internal world and how we either transcend or how we fall into despair and how we then come back up again like a phoenix it just is it's connected to something that's very very fundamental in humanity

Fresh Air
Jon Batiste Almost Got Kicked Out Of Juilliard

That feeling is connected to the human condition. It is the human condition made into sound. It's something about his music that is always reflective of our collective state and how we deal with our internal world and how we either transcend or how we fall into despair and how we then come back up again like a phoenix it just is it's connected to something that's very very fundamental in humanity

Fresh Air
Jon Batiste Almost Got Kicked Out Of Juilliard

Right. It's very foreboding. It has that sense.

Fresh Air
Jon Batiste Almost Got Kicked Out Of Juilliard

Right. It's very foreboding. It has that sense.

Fresh Air
Jon Batiste Almost Got Kicked Out Of Juilliard

Right. It's very foreboding. It has that sense.

Fresh Air
Jon Batiste Almost Got Kicked Out Of Juilliard

No, no, it really, I speak about his music in that way because it's not that I was thinking about him directly or his music. It's more that his music represents something that is bigger than him in the way that all of that one percentile of greats, their work represents this thing that is a universal idea that no one had pulled down from the divine subconscious yet.

Fresh Air
Jon Batiste Almost Got Kicked Out Of Juilliard

No, no, it really, I speak about his music in that way because it's not that I was thinking about him directly or his music. It's more that his music represents something that is bigger than him in the way that all of that one percentile of greats, their work represents this thing that is a universal idea that no one had pulled down from the divine subconscious yet.

Fresh Air
Jon Batiste Almost Got Kicked Out Of Juilliard

No, no, it really, I speak about his music in that way because it's not that I was thinking about him directly or his music. It's more that his music represents something that is bigger than him in the way that all of that one percentile of greats, their work represents this thing that is a universal idea that no one had pulled down from the divine subconscious yet.

Fresh Air
Jon Batiste Almost Got Kicked Out Of Juilliard

Well, there's a couple of things there. I think that I'm associated with joy because... i do it to a level that is is hard to come by it's i do it well and it's not something that you see often in particular when you think of performers who are in the mainstream there's there's this sense of um joy that i bring that is very very singular

Fresh Air
Jon Batiste Almost Got Kicked Out Of Juilliard

Well, there's a couple of things there. I think that I'm associated with joy because... i do it to a level that is is hard to come by it's i do it well and it's not something that you see often in particular when you think of performers who are in the mainstream there's there's this sense of um joy that i bring that is very very singular

Fresh Air
Jon Batiste Almost Got Kicked Out Of Juilliard

Well, there's a couple of things there. I think that I'm associated with joy because... i do it to a level that is is hard to come by it's i do it well and it's not something that you see often in particular when you think of performers who are in the mainstream there's there's this sense of um joy that i bring that is very very singular