It was a major growth moment for me as an artist because, you know, I'm committed to my mission of using hip-hop to - as a tool for social change and using hip-hop as a way to spread information, correct information about the music and the culture and about me as an American and me as a black American woman, and going to Indonesia was an intense experience.
But from the point of view of music-making and me doing my job, I prefer to conduct from the pit.
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The 5th Brandenburg Concerto works on me and reminds me that what really matters in music is the sensation of hearing it feeling it and it inspires me to continue to strive to create the strongest sensations I can using the methods and tools I have access to.
"I feel so much ashamed of myself, being in a warm place and having my violin with me and playing music while people have to stand in long queues in order to have something to eat, " he says.
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But I'm not fluent to the point where you can show me sheet music and I can sit down and play it.
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If I have a club and I can play this music that you've already mixed for me and let it run on autopilot, why do I need you physically there?
Then I watch TV and go to bed, but sometimes I bring my iPod with me and listen to some music.
She stiffened and moved away from me, but I turned up the music and we settled back to drive and watch the moon come up.
Since this time I have chosen to remain private and to focus on what is most important to me: my family and my music.
This music feels good to me, and this genre always felt good to me, so I want to give it some attention.
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Our bass player, who has played music with me for 12 years and is my singing partner, he is from North Carolina as well.
"For me cooking and music go hand-in-hand and too many youngsters see them as dull or laborious subjects, which is far from the truth, " said Mr Roots.
You made me think about music and one's nation.
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He has become well-known for the quality of music during the catwalk and proudly told me that guests this season would be treated to several unreleased tracks from indie bands The Envy Corps, Long Walks on the Beach, The Rapture and Beady Eye.
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"A friend of mine gave me your album Love Comes and Goes, and I wanted to make sure you knew that you're in my road music, and you have to understand how important my road music is to me, " McRae told Parris when they first met.
And so I figured, why not make a style of music that appeals to me as well as to my friends and something that I know that there is a market for?
So there is this love, this love inside me for the sound of the piano, the touch of the piano, and there's a spirit that moves in me, just listening and participating in music in general.
He lives and breathes music, as he told me when we sat down to discuss his pick, Ornette Coleman.
Six years later, he was working in films, arranging and composing music for some of the great musicals Gigi, Kiss Me Kate and Silk Stockings.
"There's more sponsorship happening for music and that's been good for me for sure, " he says, adding that many more alcohol and cigarette companies are putting big money into hosting events and throwing music events and dance nights.
Dial the 800 number, work through a dizzying array of menu choices, choose to speak with a human being and wait on hold listening to music for 20 minutes to two hours (it happened to me once) and you might reach a person who can (in only 70% of my cases) provide definitive, final help.
And it made me think that in all the sad and scary themes you address in your music, you're always asking that question implicitly.
You tell me the style of music you want and the message you want to convey.
Listening to Neil Halstead, I always run through a gamut of emotions: No matter what's going on in my life, his music puts me into a blissful dream state, and I'm happy.
Mind you, a music industry executive told me last week that he and his colleagues would not be at all enthusiastic about a UK version of the service from the company they regard as one of the prime facilitators of piracy.
Someone sent me a link to a music video, and I followed it to the site.
Apple, the computer and music company, has already done the research for me.
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At first the music almost repelled me, it was so intense, and this man made no attempt to sugarcoat what he was trying to say, or play.
Superstars of the 70s may not really be the best present I ever got, but it was the one with the most lasting reach, as it started me on the path to discovering new music and making that music a part of my life.
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