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“Music to me goes beyond the connection with my instrument and the sound I create. It's a deep and meaningful relationship between what you compose and hear in your head and what you then created using your instrument as the tool”. Steve ‘Chief’ Hanley

“I look for different things when I write music. Sometimes I want to capture the way I feel at a particular moment. You can’t never really do this: you write the music, but then time goes past and you forget what it was like to be in the moment. That music you wrote is left behind and it takes on a life of it’s own”. Tom Rivière

“In the past my relationship with music has been unhealthy. For a long time my self-worth was too entangled with how I played and I carried around a lot of negativity. However, thinking about my little set of values before each time I play changed my mindset, leading to more positive experiences whilst performing. Of course, I still approach musical situations with a bad attitude sometimes, but to know that it is possible to change the way you view something has an effect on how you perceive other situations. I have limitations, but I can change, I can understand things better. Perhaps I can be a better person if I try!” Tom Rivière