Spring Music Recital 2009



Eleven of my students participated in the Fall Music Recital held May 10, 2009 at the First Presbyterian Church in Malden. Reverend Jared Ownes gave the invocation and the students performed classical, sacred, and pop music to a large audience. This was also Mother's Day and all mothers and grandmothers of the students received special recognition.

Pictured front row, left to right:
Evin Smith, Ben Owens and Gracie Thomas. Middle row: Ally Hoehn, Wade Slaughter, Daniel Smith, Mikayla Turner and Rickie Smith. Back row: Cindy Lester-teacher, Sam Turner, Shelby Martin and Alison Davis. These students are from Malden, Bernie and Campbell. Way to go guys-you did an outstanding job as usual!!
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Ladies Love Outlaws:
Waylon Jennings

This is my daughter Hannah, age 12 when this picture was taken, posing backstage with Waylon Jennings in Las Vegas, NV in 2000.



I took the photo above in 2001 in Albuquerque, NM backstage prior to a Waylon Jennings concert; my husband and I had been acquainted with Waylon and his band for over 25 years and still keep in touch with some of his former band members.






Pictured below is Reggie Young, probably regarded as one of the best guitarists in the world. Remember the opening guitar lick on Dobie Gray's song "Drift Away"? That was Reggie who has played with practically everyone including Elvis. He was part of Waylon's band during his last tours. Reggie is married to Waylon's former fiddle player, Jenny Lynn Hollowell. We attended their beautiful wedding in Franklin, TN in 2004.


This is Rance Wasson, guitarist and backup singer for Waylon. He and his wife Marie live near Nashville. We've known Rance and Marie since we all lived in Tulsa in the 1980's.

Music Quotes 
from the
Famous & Not So Famous



"The guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It's everything but it can be elusive." Les Paul

"To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism.......bordering on insanity." Richard Thompson

"I figured out how to get the guitar to rumble." Stevie Ray Vaughn

"Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing." John Erskine

"Any problem you can't solve with a good guitar is either unsolvable or isn't really a problem." Anonymous

"A bad rendition of you is better than a good rendition of somebody else." Willie Dixon

"Without music, life is a journey through a desert." Pat Conroy

"My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am." Joan Jett

"I've come up with the theory that the music is within. We don't bring it in; it's already there." Howard Roberts

"Rock and Roll is a feeling." Eddie Van Halen

"Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!" J. K Rowling

"The world is full of amazing guitar players.....it's a humbling experience." Mark Knopfler

"The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice." Andre Segovia

"Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music." George Eliot

"If it has more than 3 chords, it's jazz." Lou Reed

"To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itslef, incredible and inconceivable." Aaron Copeland

"Hell is full of amateur musicians." George Bernard Shaw

"It occured to me by intuition and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery (the Theory of Relativity) was the result of musical perception." Albert Einstein

"God gave us music that we might pray without words." Anonymous

"Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories." Oscar Wilde

"Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music." Gioacchino Antonio Rossini

"Wes Montgomery played impossible things on the guitar because it was never pointed out that they were impossible." Ronnie Scott, jazz guitarist

"With some musicians, you can hear the note almost before they hit it." Carlos Santana

"Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding, he sings." Ed Gardner

"Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule." Samuel Butler

"There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself." Johann Sebastian Bach

More Musical Quotes
"Music can change the world. " -- Ludwig Van Beethoven

"Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable." -- Leonard Bernstein

"Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to play it live. " -- James Brown

"If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to know. " -- Edgar Cayce

"Music is nothing separate from me. It is me... You'd have to remove the music surgically. " -- Ray Charles

"There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music." -- George Eliot

"You are the music while the music lasts." --T. S. Eliot

"We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it. " -- Jerry Garcia

"Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife." -- Kahlil Gibran

"The history of a people is found in its songs." -- George Jellinek

"Without music life would be a mistake." -- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art." -- Charlie Parker

"Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside. " -- Elvis Presley

"It's the music that kept us all intact, kept us from going crazy. " -- Lou Reed

"Music should never be harmless." -- Robbie Robertson

 “Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.” – Lao Tzu

"All music is important if it comes from the heart. " -- Carlos Santana

"The best music... is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with. " -- Bruce Springsteen

"In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain." --George Szell

"Most of us go to our grave with our music still inside of us." --Unknown

"Music at its essence is what gives us memories. " -- Stevie Wonder

“I don’t find the songs; they find me. I just strum the guitar and wait for a lyric to come.” –James Taylor