My name is JT. I play mandolin and build things with vacuum tubes.
Here's some things you ought to think about for a little bit:
"When I look up I grin / When I look down, I drool." -- Leo Kottke, Great Big Boy
"…the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world." – John Steinbeck, East of Eden
"I get mad frustrated when I rhyme / Thinkin' of all them kids that try to do this for all the wrong reasons" -- Lauryn Hill, How Many Mics
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." – Hunter S. Thompson
"Improvisation, it is a mystery. You can write a book about it, but by the end no one still knows what it is. When I improvise and I'm in good form, I'm like somebody half sleeping. I even forget that there are people in front of me. Great improvisers are like priests, they are thinking only of their God." -- Stéphane Grappelli