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🗓️ 5 November 2018
⏱️ 68 minutes
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0:00.0 | Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR. |
0:12.9 | I'm Jesse Thorn. |
0:13.9 | When you're young and you're trying to figure out your life, you don't usually know what |
0:17.9 | you're good at, right? |
0:19.7 | These kind of things take time. |
0:21.4 | And not everyone finds their calling in life the way that say Kamasi Washington did. |
0:27.2 | He is an acclaimed jazz composer, band leader. |
0:31.4 | And he also plays the saxophone beautifully. |
0:33.9 | I never thought that I could make music like the music that I liked because I was having |
0:39.7 | found my voice. |
0:40.7 | And it was like when I found the saxophone, it was almost immediate. |
0:44.8 | It was like a seat. |
0:46.6 | It was like all of a sudden, like, oh, we're there, right there. |
0:50.7 | That's where you will be able to make music that you enjoy. |
0:54.1 | And I was like, oh, wow. |
0:56.0 | I could do that. |
0:57.0 | Like, I could make a song that made me feel the way I feel when I hear this or play |
1:01.6 | you record. |
1:02.6 | I could do that. |
1:03.6 | Like, oh, wow. |
1:04.6 | And then I was just hooked, you know, all that addictive personality, like 97% of it went |
1:11.8 | right into the saxophone and music. |
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