In this episode of The Creative Life Podcast, bass player, composer, author, producer, music educator and recipient of 5 Grammy awards, Victor Wooten tells us how he learned playing bass from his brothers and played music with them at a very young age. He shares with us his journey on how he also learned to play music through communicating with his instrument. Victor also talks about how he deals with people who have learned music in a different way and understanding their approach.
" When it comes to learning a language, we understand that we learn to talk first, learn the rules later. "
" As a musician, my goal is to make you feel good when I play. "
" Anybody can be famous. You don't have to be successful to become famous. Being famous is not enough. Making it is just easy. It just depends on what you call making it, but knowing who you are and being a value to the world that's a lifetime journey. "
" Learn it all. Get yourself out there, but have a good reason for getting yourself out there so that the world benefits."
- Victor Wooten
Victor Wooten Show Notes: Helping people to reclaim their Musical Freedom (11:07) Goal as a musician (12:53) Giving people the freedom to play badly (16:21) Wrong notes are beautiful (16:58) Victor's Music Camps (19:04) Positive feedbacks on Victor's book (21:00) Musical opportunities that did not happen (22:30) Victor's experience with Lee Greenwood (24:18) Playing with Béla Fleck and the Flecktones (26:03) Best advice from parents (28:15) Music Nature Camp's idea (30:21) Listen to everything (36:55) Re-evaluating himself (38:44)Join James's Facebook fans: https://www.facebook.com/jamestaylordotme
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ABOUT JAMES
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As a creativity expert Taylor is a frequent guest speaker at universities and international conferences. He has given keynotes and talks at Apple, Subscription Site Summit in San Francisco, the British Music Show in the UK and at several universities across Europe including University of Dundee in Scotland and University of Macerata in Italy. He is often called upon by media outlets to give his views on trends in creativity and innovation. He has been quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle, Miami Herald, Columbus Dispatch, STV, Business Insider and San Jose Mercury News as well as featured on BBC TV and being the subject of a 30minute program on his life for BBC Radio Scotland. As a host on shows about creativity and innovation he has interviewed legendary investor Maynard Webb (Yahoo.com, eBay.com & Salesforce.com board member) and New York Times best-selling writers Chris Guillebeau ($100 Startup), Rolf Potts (Vagabonding), Brand Cooper (The Lean Entrepreneur) and Ryan Holiday (Trust Me I’m Lying). James is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (FRSA).
Meet James at http://www.JamesTaylor.me
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ABOUT THE CREATIVE LIFE
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The Creative Life is a weekly self-improvement show full of #motivation, #inspiration, and #creativity strategies with creativity speaker and author James Taylor.
The Creative Life blog can be read at: http://www.jamestaylor.me
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