"The bass is the link between harmony and rhythm. It is the foundation of a band. It is what all the other instruments stand upon, but it is rarely recognized as that."

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Source : Victor L. Wooten (2008). “The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music”, p.20, Penguin

Victor Wooten

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“I long for the days of good honest crooks.”
“She is the only dream I ever had that lived and breathed and did not die in the face of reality." (Ashley said about Melanie)”
“The government did a lot of things to us in terms of sending pictures to my house. If I had to go to a school to give a speech and the sorority wanted to sign a song, they would send [a person] to my house and tell my wife that I had sex with this woman or that woman.It got to the point where my wife didn't know what to believe anymore, and the fact that I didn't have a job, I couldn't support my bills, the fact that I was getting ready to go through maybe a mental setback in terms of depression, we just had a tremendous amount of things on us.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena.”

Source : "The Middle Ages". Book by Morris Bishop, p. 252, 1968.
“I always liked creativity, whether it was to draw or sew - any creative assignment I was getting from school, or just on my own. I love people and behaviors, and I'm interested and fascinated by why we do what we do. And I wanted to be a therapist, to be honest. Maybe wirking in film combines the two worlds, in a not super-linear way, but it definitely feeds both my two passions.”
“While aromatherapy is practiced by medical doctors in France, this has not been the case in England and the United States.”
“The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism.”
“Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level.”

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