"I just wanted people to experience this music in a primal and hypnotic way. Kind of going back to what made us fall in love with music in the first place."
It wasn't just his tenor voice, but there was something bordering on ethereal about his singing. Perhaps it was his 3-1/2 octave range that first grabbed me.
"Her music has that sense of being arresting and shakes us up. But it also just sounds so right and so organic."
"I think Dot is trying to teach us, and teach George in that moment, that just choosing and going forward is all we can do."
"This show forces you to actually go into the deepest part of yourself."
"Trying to open people's hearts feels more politically useful than trying to convince people of something."
"There was a palpable feeling building in the audience that we knew she would make it to the finish line in breathtaking form."
"In some ways it's the most personal piece of mine because of that resonance with the land and with the history."
"Regardless of what he had to endure in his personal life, as much as his life was always in danger, he knew that the message was bigger than him."
"When you're dealing with these amazing artists on stage who have these different ways of expression, really the music can go anywhere."