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Deborah Felmuth

Vermont-based piano/music teacher, yoga instructor, and carpenter; speaker on KPFA's Visionary Activist Show

Jun 18, 2026

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14:52
there.
14:54
So, you know, you could play the same notes.
14:57
But if you don't know who you are, what you are doing, why are you saying this in this moment, through your fingertips with these great instruments of wood and metal that resonate so beautifully and stir so many emotions, then you're just imitating.
15:21
Which is, of course, why he was always saying improvisation is you need to start there.
15:29
You can't, if you're reading somebody else's music, if it's Mozart's or if somebody wrote down Abdul Ibrahim, you are imitating something, okay? That's something.
15:41
But you won't start to play until you improvise because that's what we are all doing.
15:50
That's what you and I are doing right now.

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