Joanne Brackeen on being a shy person

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Joanne Brackeen discusses the ability of music to communicate

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Joanne Brackeen discusses her methodology in working with other musicians

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Q: “When you sit down at the keyboard, do you sometimes make a better statement about something than you ever could or would with words?”

A: “Very possibly. Yeah, very possibly. Yeah, I think so because the subtleties are there. There are things that people, on a whole, may not understand when you speak about. You can speak about it very clearly, but they may not understand. It will sound like a bunch of words whereas if they can feel that because music is a very natural thing. So are the ideas, but people's minds are not always open to words because they get trained in words to do things, but they don't get trained in music to do things. Music is a natural flow, so they could be open to that. I mean, I'm a subject of that, too, because I remember when I went to Japan, I was eating this kind of food, the seafood. It was really good, you know, and I kept asking for it, but I didn't know what it was. And after I was there for about a week, they told me it was eel. Well, if they told me that was eel to begin with, I would never have eaten it.”