I was lucky enough to grow up in a house where we listened to all kinds of music. We listened to Haitian, hip hop, soul, classical jazz, gospel and Cuban music, to name a few. When you have access to that as a child, it just opens up your world.
Interpretation
Exposure to diverse music enhances cultural appreciation and understanding.
Cecile Mclorin Salvant highlights the profound impact that a varied musical upbringing can have on a person's life. By listening to a wide range of music genres as a child, individuals can develop a greater appreciation for different cultures and artistic expressions, which can enrich their worldview and personal growth.
In practice
In a speech about cultural diversity at a community event.
If you can't create physical life, you find a life force. If that's in music, that's in music. I started to find this deep, primitive rhythm, and I started to move to it. And I held hands with sorrow, and I danced with her, and we giggled a bit.
'Art or anti-art?' was the question I asked when I returned from Munich in 1912 and decided to abandon pure painting or painting for its own sake. I thought of introducing elements alien to painting as the only way out of a pictorial and chromatic dead end.
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.
Most photographers seem to operate with a pane of glass between themselves and their subjects. They just can't get inside and know the subject.
Footballers can be like artists when the mind and body are working as one. It is what Miles Davis does when he plays free jazz - everything pulls together into one intense moment that is beautiful.
I don't really remember a time younger than 5 years old that I didn't have skates on because all I can remember is every day, tying up my skates and a big smile on my face, excited to go on the ice.
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