Music evolves and will until time runs out. It shifts through passages, moments, and crevices in your life. As was written and recorded by Quincy Jones, "everything must change". No fear because of the changes that occur in your life, what you must do is embrace them. No one love is like the last love. Look into your new loves eyes and open your mind to something different.
Fortune has let me listen to and know music and art on many different levels, jazz, soul, R&B, hip-hop, gospel and even lately some bluegrass. Renaissance, impressionist, modern and classical painting and sculpture. I find it all connected. The Last Poets were the rappers of their time and Bessie Smith recorded sweet soul music. The call and response of the chain gang is the formula for that motown sound. Drum calls influenced Elvin and Art. Classic Greek sculpture is obvious in Edmonia Lewis work and the fauvist color and shapes of Matisse and the lines of Modigliani give me more inspiration and instruction every day. DH Lawrence was arrested for the erotic love he wrote about, I can write of love as I wish.
This stream of art, music, and lyrics has shaped me. Though some call me a dreamer, I know it is the music of my soul they may not be able to hear. I have heard the best and that ability to hear is what makes me beautiful.
sculpture by Linda Hayden
