"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything"
--- Plato
"Creativity is to our personality what helium is to a balloon. It gives us the potential to expand. And once we're 'inflated' we never quite go back to the same old way of thinking." --- Jude Treder-Wolff, in Thinking On Your Feet Takes Improvisation...and Practice," Los Angeles Times, November 2000