Somebody told me something when I was young that really stayed with me, uh which is that when we learn music, we learn all there is to know and the older i've got the more I realize this is deeply the case. Because music is is powered by so many of the things that make life possible and make life worth living. These foundation of pillars at the heart of it trusts, empathy, courage, tenacity, irreverence, reverence mathematics, and physics and language and at the heart of it all this this process of listening. If this reflects anything, it's just you're only as good a musician as you are a human being. Um, and it's true. And In the in in the words of the of the great victor whitney says, you know, the world doesn't need more good musicians, the world is more good people, but it just happens that being a musician is a really good way of being a good person. Because of all the principles that are built in if there's anything ii would particularly like to impart upon you other than just hearing you sing that great chord just then um I would just I would say trust each other. Because nobody knows what's coming next I don't know these guys don't know not even jill scott knows. It is it it is an unprecedented time to be a human and to be a musician. And the only thing we can do is we can trust each other. And iii think that in a world where agency is being taken away, you are only as powerful as you make the people around you feel it's so true from the stage. It's so true in the studio. It's true in any kind of creative process and. And if you give your voice to others, as I often like to do, you get your voice reflected right back. And I think that I had an artist greatest and brightest an artist is a mirror and if there's any bunch of of young musicians that makes me really hopeful and really excited, I'm looking right at it and I'm I'm just so proud to be here alongside all of you. It is most extraordinary moment in in musical history and human history. And I'm deeply, deeply proud to to be graduating alongside you. So. Thank you so much for having me deep, deep congratulations and best of luck for all that lies ahead I know you're gonna absolutely rock it. Thanks everybody.
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