Boulders Quote by Pauline Oliveros

[Students] they did the sonic meditations, I would observe them in their ensembles, and the ensembles improved incredibly. So I knew I had something…

— Pauline Oliveros

Something that I did, and I developed out of that sonic meditations, which were pieces that I composed in the '70s that now are…

— Pauline Oliveros

I have students who are PhDs in music who come back and scored the music and teach the kids the instruments that I don't…

— Rafe Esquith

I had a drummer in my band who started teaching me tricks to come up with interesting rhythms. Because I don't come from a…

— Jens Lekman

I have found that meditation has helped me with my academic career and has given me insights into musical composition and software design.

— Frederick Lenz

The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and…

— Andres Segovia

I was inspired by, when I was in college, seeing some incredible speakers come to my school: Michael Eric Dyson, Spike Lee, Nikki Giovanni,…

— J. Cole

I got really involved in science research and the science of meditation.

— Matthieu Ricard

When I sit with students, I do not just want to help them solve their problems. I want to find a moment with each…

— Jack Kornfield

I did a project called 'Sing The Truth,' which was a lot of fun. It started out being a celebration of the music of…

— Dianne Reeves

When I was a freshman in college I went to Grinnell College in Iowa. I brought my poems to my freshman humanities teacher whose…

— Edward Hirsch

I wasn't the best student, and for some reason, I always got music. While other people were having trouble figuring out notes on a…

— Josh Groban