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Sam Baker
Jan 15, 20200 min read
With the Columbia Gorge Association Sinfonietta
I'll have more on this later. Just arrived The Netherlands to visit friends here. But playing the Go in Peace Symphony was one of the...
Sam Baker
Jan 15, 20201 min read
Sam Baker
Jan 11, 20200 min read
Sam Baker
Jan 11, 20200 min read
Sam Baker
Jan 11, 20200 min read
Sam Baker
Jan 11, 20200 min read
a long time...
Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself. -Miles Davis
Sam Baker
Jan 11, 20201 min read
...play what's not there.
-Miles Davis
Sam Baker
Jan 11, 20201 min read
Speaking to souls...
My music is the spiritual expression of what I am — my faith, my knowledge, my being...When you begin to see the possibilities of music,...
Sam Baker
Jan 11, 20201 min read
Many wonderful things...
Over all, I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things that he knows...
Sam Baker
Jan 11, 20201 min read
To be a musician...
To be a musician is really something. It goes very, very deep. My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my...
Sam Baker
Jan 11, 20201 min read
The middle of a sentence...
I start in the middle of a sentence and move both directions at once. ― John Coltrane
Sam Baker
Jan 11, 20201 min read
January 2020 Newsletter
January 2020 News Letter
Sam Baker
Jan 11, 20201 min read
The Wildest
This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness. - Mary Oliver
Sam Baker
Jan 4, 20201 min read
3/4 time
Acrylic on canvas
Sam Baker
Dec 28, 20191 min read
From the opening of Moby Dick
That sea beast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest to swim the ocean stream. -Paradise Lost
Sam Baker
Dec 28, 20191 min read
Sam Baker
Dec 1, 20190 min read
Frankl
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of...
Sam Baker
Nov 30, 20191 min read
An awful lot
In biography there is no one truth, but there are an awful lot of objective facts. —Robert Caro
Sam Baker
Nov 26, 20191 min read
Sam Baker
Nov 23, 20190 min read
also there is some kind of member thing going on that I don't understand. it will get fixed. I don't want a membership thing so please don't sign up. I am not sure what it does. ughh.
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