Awakening your Authentic Inner Muse

"People of color, people of all classes, both genders, have been systematically musically incapacitated." (18)

"Learning to play music, as an adult living in the modern world, has been one of the greatest gifts I've ever allowed myself! In making music I am so alive, I am in touch with a part of myself I had forgotten existed. It doesn't matter how good I am, or if anyone likes it, I play now for myself, for my own sanity and to let out the truth of my existence." Anonymous

I want to revisit a quote I used earlier in the book here, "There is a critical loss of music making going on that is not 'natural' or 'inevitable,' nor is it natural that just the 'talented' few are doing something and the 'untalented' many are applauding." (17)

Making music is so much more of a natural phenomenon than we have been taught in western modern society! It's not this "far away" concept that we can't reach or grasp as it's often portrayed to be, and, as mentioned in Chapter 2, you don't have to study theory and practice for years to be able to play and participate in making music! If you believe that music is just for "musicians," you've bought a lie!

It's false programming, plain and simple. Music is for everyone, and everyone has music inside of them. "The taste for music is inborn in man, and it first shows in the infant." (11 p. 52)