Pat Dodd resides in San Diego, California. With the backdrop of an oceanic horizon, Pat seeks to find, enjoy, and experience all of the wonderful gifts life has to offer.
With spiritual curiosity and cultivated relationships around the context of music, he joins us in this episode of Let The Music Play Podcast as we discuss life, wisdom, and the school of love.
You can download this episode and all other episodes of Let The Music Play Podcast in iTunes and at AshtonGustafson.com.
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. Frank Kafka
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the ocean in an entire drop. Rumi
The music is the experience that is heard, felt, and seen and the story that unfolds when one’s divine identity, core conscience, God giftings, core beliefs and core values come together, come alive, and crescendo in the universe we exist in. Ashton Gustafson
The border between music and noise is always culturally defined
—which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass through the same place;
in short, there is rarely a consensus …
By all accounts there is no single and intercultural universal concept defining what music might be. Jean-Jacques Nattiez
The greatest tragedy in America is not the destruction of our natural resources, though that tragedy is great. The truly great tragedy is the destruction of our human resources by our failure to fully utilize our abilities, which means that most men and women go to their graves with their music still in them. Oliver Wendell Holmes