#304 - Victor Wooten - The Spirit Of Music

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2021

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Victor Wooten is one of the greatest bass players of all time and a 5-times Grammy Award Winner.

After a career of writing, teaching and performing at the highest levels on earth, Victor has come to gain some insights around how music affects us and what we might be losing if we don't properly nurture it.

Expect to learn how Victor deals with his internal critic, what he does to open up his students' creativity, what fast food and modern music have in common, how Victor overcomes nerves when performing and much more...

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0:00.0	Oh hello friends, welcome back.
0:03.0	My guest today is Victor Wooten.
0:04.9	He's one of the greatest bass players of all time, a five times Grammy Award winner
0:10.2	and an all-round fascinating human.
0:13.3	After career of writing, teaching and performing at the highest levels on earth, Victor has
0:17.4	come to gain some insights around how music affects us and what we might be losing if
0:22.1	we don't properly nurture it.
0:24.0	So today, expect to learn how Victor deals with his internal critic, what he does to open
0:28.4	up his students' creativity, what fast food and modern music have in common, how Victor
0:33.4	overcomes nerves when performing and much more.
0:37.6	I think there's a lot to learn from people that have risen to mastery within their chosen
0:41.3	fields, no matter what it is.
0:43.6	And Victor has literally redefined bass playing over the last few decades.
0:48.2	He has this really wonderful melodic tone to his voice and this sort of beautifully
0:54.6	spiritual approach to life is a phenomenal guy, a very, very lovely human and you're going
1:01.4	to really enjoy this one.
1:03.0	In other news, this episode of the podcast, actually before this episode of the podcast,
1:08.2	some of you may have been thinking, where's Jordan Peterson episode?
1:11.0	I thought he was today.
1:12.0	Maybe he's transformed into a black bass player.
1:14.1	No, he hasn't.
1:15.1	It's been delayed by a week.
	...

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