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Thank you very much.

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It's true I was born into a band;

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very literally, I mean that literally.

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When I was born, my four older brothers[br]who were already playing music,

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knew that they needed a bass player

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(Laughter)

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to round out the family band.

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I was born into that role.

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As I'm older I'm looking back right now,[br]now that I'm called a teacher.

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When I look back on that,[br]and how I was taught,

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I realized that I wasn't really taught.

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Which is why I say[br]that music is a language;

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because if you think[br]about your first language,

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for me, and probably[br]most of us here might be English,

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so I'm just going to go with English.

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If you think about how you learned it,[br]you realize you weren't taught it.

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People just spoke to you.

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But the coolest thing[br]is where it gets interesting

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because you were allowed to speak back.

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If I take the music example,

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in most cases, our beginners are not[br]allowed to play with the better people.

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You're stuck in the beginning class.

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You have to remain there a few years,

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until you are elevated[br]to the intermediate, and then advanced;

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and after you graduate the advanced class,

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you still have to go out[br]and pay a lot of dues.

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But with language,

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to use a musical term, even as a baby[br]you're "jamming" with professionals.

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All the time.

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To the point that you don't even know[br]you're a beginner.

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No one says, "I can't talk to you until--[br]You got to go over there.

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When you're older,[br]then I can speak to you."

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(Laughter)

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That doesn't happen.

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No one tells you what you have to say.

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You're not made[br]to sit in a corner and practice.

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You're never even corrected[br]when you're wrong.

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Think about it: when you're 2-3 years old,[br]and you say a word wrong over and over,

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no one corrects you.

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If you say it wrong enough times,

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instead of correcting you,[br]your parents learn your way.

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(Laughter)

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And they start saying it wrong too!

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The coolest part of that[br]is that you remain free,

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with how you talk.

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And so you never have to follow[br]the musical role of learning

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all these years and then,[br]going and finding your voice.

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With your speaking voice,[br]you've never lost it.

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No one ever robbed you of that.

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And so, when I was young[br]that's how I was learning;

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I was learning English[br]and music at the same time

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and in the same way.

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So I tell this to people; I usually say,[br]"Yeah, I started when I was two or three."

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And I say that just[br]because that's more believable.

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But when did you start speaking English?

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Did you wait until you were two or three?

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No.

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You were speaking,[br]I'd probably say, before birth.

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Whenever you could hear[br]is when you probably started learning it.

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To me, that's very, very cool,[br]and very very clever of my brothers

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- my oldest brother, out of the five...

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I'm the youngest, Reggie is the oldest -

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He's only eight years older than me.

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So how he was this smart, I don't know.[br]That's the real question.

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That should be the real TED talk.

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How he figured out the ingenious way

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of not teaching us,[br]younger brothers, how to play!

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He didn't start me[br]by putting a bass in my hands.

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No.

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The first thing they did[br]was to play music around me

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from my earliest age that I can remember.

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I can remember living in Hawaii,

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my brothers would set up,[br]and I can remember seeing a plastic stool.

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A lot of times[br]we'd set up in the front yard

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where I can see a plastic stool,

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with a little plastic toy,[br]Mickey Mouse wind-up-guitar,

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laying on top of that stool.

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No one had to tell me[br]that that was for me.

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The same way no one has to tell you[br]when it's your turn to talk.

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You know how to do it[br]and so I knew that stool was for me.

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I knew that instrument was for me.

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It had plastic strings on it, you would[br]wind it up, and it would play a song.

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But you couldn't really play it from[br]the strings, and it wasn't about that.

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By the time I was old enough[br]to hold an instrument,

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they gave me something to hold[br]Just for the sake of holding something;

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preparing me for the later years.

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It wasn't about playing that instrument.

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That's the mistake[br]a lot of us, music teachers make:

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we teach kids how to play the instrument[br]first, before they understand music.

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You don't teach a kid how to spell.

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Teaching a kid to spell "milk"

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before they've been drinking[br]a lot of it for a few years

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doesn't make sense does it?

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But for some reason,[br]we still think it does in music.

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We want to teach them the rules[br]and the instruments first.

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But by the time I was about two,[br]and they put that toy in my hands,

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I was already very musical[br]because I believe you're born musical.

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Just listen to anybody's voice.[br]Listen to any child's voice.

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There's no purer music than that.

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So my brothers somehow knew[br]I was born musical,

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but they wanted me to be a bass player

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so when I was old enough,[br]they put a toy in my hands,

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and they would play.

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I would just bounce up and down[br]and strum along, too.

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But the coolest thing about it, again,[br]is it wasn't about the instrument.

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I was learning to play music[br]not an instrument.

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And I continue that hopefully today.

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Again, what I did know[br]was I knew what it meant

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when my brother opened up his high hat[br]at the end of a four-bar phrase.

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Or I learned these phrases[br]versus that phrase.

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The same way a baby knows what it means

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when the mother raises[br]the pitch of her voice

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versus the father lowering[br]the pitch of his.

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You know these things,

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and even though you may not[br]even understand what the word means.

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And so you're learning all these things.

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By the time a baby can speak a real word,

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they know already a lot[br]about the language.

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So I was learning music the same way.

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By the time I had the instrument[br]in my hands, I was already very musical.

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When I would turn about three years old,

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Reggie took two strings off[br]of one of his six-string guitars.

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He took the two high strings off,[br]and that became my first real instrument.

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So Reggie actually started teaching me

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to put my finger[br]in certain places to produce notes

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to songs I already knew.

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I wasn't starting from the beginning.[br]I was musical first.

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Now, I just had to put[br]that music through an instrument.

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And looking back on it now,[br]I realize that's how I learned to talk.

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It wasn't about learning[br]the instrument first.

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Who cares about[br]the instrument you talk with?

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It's about what you have to say.

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I've always musically maintained[br]my own voice.

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I've always had something to say.

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And I've learned how to speak[br]through my instrument.

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So if we think about a couple of things

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not being forced to practice,[br]not being told what you have to say

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- I'm speaking English again -[br]not being told what you have to say.

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When the teacher teaches you[br]a new word in English,

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she has you put it into a sentence;[br]in the context, right away.

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A music teacher will tell you[br]to go practice it.

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Practicing works but it's a slower process[br]than putting it into context.

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And we know that with English.

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And so this was the way I learned.

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As I grew older, about five years old,[br]we were actually on tour; the five of us.

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We were fortunate enough[br]to be able to tour

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opening for a great soul singer[br]named Curtis Mayfield.

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So if I was five years old,[br]my oldest brother was only 13.

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But when I think about it,[br]we could speak good English at that age.

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Why not music?

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So I've always, since then, approached[br]music just like a language,

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because I learned it[br]at the same time and in the same way.

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The best part of it all

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is I've maintained something[br]that little children are born with.

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And that's freedom.

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A lot of us are talked out[br]of our musical freedom,

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when we are first given a lesson.

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Because we go to a teacher,

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and the teacher rarely ever finds out[br]why we came in the first place.

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A lot of times,[br]that kid playing that air guitar

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where there's no right or wrong,

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it's not about the right or wrong notes,[br]it's not about the instrument.

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They're playing because it feels right.

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It's the same way and reason[br]that you sing in the shower.

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Or when you're driving[br]to work; you're singing.

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You're not singing[br]because it's the right notes

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or you know the right scales,

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you're singing because it feels good.

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I spoke to a lady at breakfast who said,

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"I'm Ella Fitzgerald[br]when I'm in the shower!"

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(Laughter)

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And of course she's right!

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So why does that change[br]when someone outside starts to listen?

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That freedom becomes lost[br]as we grow and as we learn,

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and we need to find[br]a way to keep that freedom.

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And it can be done!

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It's not gone forever.

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A kid playing air guitar will play[br]with a smile on their face.

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Give them the first lesson,[br]the smile goes away.

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A lot of times you have to work for

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your whole musical life[br]to get that smile back.

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As teachers, we can keep that smile,[br]if we approach it the right way.

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And I say approach it like a language;

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allow the student to keep the freedom.

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As I got older, a little bit older,

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and my brothers and I started[br]to tour and play a lot,

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my mom would ask a question[br]that I never understood really

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until I got much older[br]and had kids of my own.

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My Mom would ask us boys,

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and she was saying,[br]"What does the world need

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with another good musician?"

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Think about that.

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And I'm saying music,[br]but insert your own career.

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What does the world need with you?

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It really made me realize[br]that now, as I've got older,

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music is more than just a language,[br]music is a lifestyle.

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It's my lifestyle.

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Don't get me wrong: I'm not talking about[br]the lifestyle a lot of musicians lead.

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Because we can look back[br]at our musical heroes of the past

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and realize that they were[br]huge successes in music,

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but just as huge failures in life.

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I could name a few of them,[br]but I don't want to upset anybody;

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but if we think about our heroes,[br]a lot of them were like that.

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I think our parents were[br]preparing us for something

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that we didn't know at the time,[br]but I think she could see ahead.

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"What does the world need

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with another good musician?"

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So we're practicing all these hours.

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We turned our whole house[br]into a music room

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where all the neighborhood, all[br]the state-wide musicians would show up.

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We would practice,

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my parents would spend money[br]they didn't have

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to make sure we had[br]the next newest instrument.

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Every Christmas,[br]Santa would bring the newest thing.

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What was that about?

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Was it just so that we could make money?

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So that we could stand on stage[br]and bask in the glory?

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I realize now, that it is[br]much more than that.

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Music is my lifestyle.

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And now as I'm going into[br]really studying music,

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so that I could share it with[br]other people in a teacher's role,

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I realize that there's a lot[br]that we can learn from music

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and apply to our lives.

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To be a good musician,[br]you have to be a good listener.

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Doesn't matter how great I am[br]as a bassist, or any instrument.

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Doesn't matter how great I am.

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We can put five of the world's[br]best musicians on this stage.

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But if we're great[br]separate from each other,

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it's going to sound horrible.

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But if we listen to each other[br]and play together,

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individually, we don't have[br]to be as great,

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and it'll sound much better.

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I was invited a couple years in a row[br]to go to Stanford, in California,

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and put together a musical team[br]to address the incoming freshman class.

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And we were able to use music[br]to give them an idea

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what the next four years[br]of their life might be like.

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It was fun using music to do it[br]because music is a way

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that I can talk about anything[br]that could be kind of touchy:

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politics, racism, equality,[br]inequality, religion.

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I can do it through music,[br]and I'm still safe.

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We were able to pick[br]someone out of the audience

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who'd never played an instrument before.

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Usually, it was a female;

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have her come up,[br]we'd strap a bass around her neck,

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and then I would get the band playing.

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And as soon as the band starts playing,

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that person starts doing this.

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(Laughter)

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And I say, "That's music!"

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If you listen to that bass,[br]like any instrument in a music store,

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when it's sitting there,[br]it doesn't make a sound.

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So if you want music to come[br]out of that, you have to put it there.

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And that groove that's in your neck,[br]you just have to put it in the instrument.

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So I just had her[br]with her left hand squeeze the neck

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- because everyone knows how[br]to hold an instrument, that's not new -

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squeeze it and then, let[br]your right hand dance, on the string.

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She starts bouncing on that note,[br]and the band kicks up around her.

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All of a sudden, she's a bassist.

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More so, she's a musician.

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A dancer never has to ask questions[br]before they dance.

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A singer doesn't usually have to ask[br]what key are we in.

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Musicians have to ask too many questions.

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So what that taught me is that, "Wow!

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Because we're great,[br]she doesn't have to know anything."

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(Laughter)

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And all of a sudden, anyone who were[br]to walk into the room and see this band

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with this newcomer on stage,

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no one would know[br]who was the newcomer.

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So that let me know, "Wow!

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If I use my greatness in the right way,[br]it can help others rise up quickly."

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And the coolest thing about[br]that whole thing in Stanford

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is she got to take the bass home!

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(Laughter)

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I saw her recently,[br]she is still a bassist

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so that's great.

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Listening is a great musical key[br]that we can use for life,

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working together, of course, being great[br]to help other people become great.

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When people put you up on a pedestal,

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don't come off the pedestal[br]acting like you're humble.

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Stay up on that pedestal,

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because if they put you there[br]that's showing you how high they can see.

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Stay there and pull them up.

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And they'll grow faster[br]than if you come down.

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So we're going to help these people[br]because we're great.

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In music, usually, I'm not great[br]until you say I am, anyway.

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They say,[br]"He's won all these Grammy's."

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I can't win anything without you all.

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Another thing my mom[br]always taught us

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is, "You boys are already successful.

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The rest of the world[br]just doesn't know it yet!"

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I didn't understand that then,[br]but I really, really do now.

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Really quickly, before I get out of here[br]I just want you to think about this:

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If I were to play two notes,[br]Let's say I play a C;

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- just want you to use your imagination -

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if I play a C and a C-sharp[br]right next to each other,

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it'll probably sound[br]like those notes clash;

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"Wrong!", "Bad!"

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But if I take the C up an octave,

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play the C-sharp and the C again.

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All of a sudden, it sounds beautiful.

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Same two notes.

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That C becomes a major seventh[br]to the C-sharp

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which is a key element that makes a chord[br]almost too beautiful, too nice sounding.

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So how can the same two notes[br]sound bad and clash in one instance

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and beautiful in another?

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Just take that to life.

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When we see something bad,[br]or awful, or horrible in life,

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maybe we're just reviewing it[br]in the wrong octave.

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Maybe we could change our perspective.

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Actually, if you see[br]something that's wrong,

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you should know[br]that you're seeing it in the wrong octave

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and find a way to change your viewpoint.

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Or to use a musical term -[br]change your octave.

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Countries make bombs[br]with the goal of hurting people,

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instilling fear, killing people,[br]proving a point.

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Countries, governments bless[br]the bombs before they're sent.

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This happens from the top-down,[br]the government down.

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This is our answer.

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Makes me realize that the solution[br]may have to come from the bottom-up.

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Is anyone working on a bomb[br]that makes people love you?

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Maybe a cupid bomb?

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I believe we already have it.

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It's called Music.

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And every country has[br]their own version of it.

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And it works. It brings people together.

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You don't have to know[br]a thing about it to get it.

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It's a language. It's a lifestyle.

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And it can save the world.

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My name is Victor Wooten. I'm a musician.

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And I hope you'll join[br]me on the battlefield.

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(Laughter)

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Thank you.

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(Applause)