Amy E. Hall

These words are shared in the spirit of Motherhood with gratitude to those who nurtured and held us, and with the knowing that we must ultim...

The humility of being a student is crucial to being a good musician, to being a good human being.  When we stop being a student, we become a...

(My students) remind me of the belief in endless possibility and the thrill of discovery.  That moment when a student encounters a sentence ...

That's why I loved [Lucy Dacus' album] Historian .  I love what (Dacus) had to say about you being a historian of all the moments: ...

Sometimes art is showing us what is wrong or good or fun about the world we inhabit, but other times it's showing us a made-up world, wi...

The things we care about are the things we make art about.  We frame them with our attention.  Art is proof of care.  -- Brian Eno and Bette...

What an artist chooses to write or make drawings or songs about, can draw our attention to certain worlds.  It tells us that somebody takes ...

Art is how adults play.  Art is the continuation of play into adulthood.  We keep playing as adults because we need to keep learning.  Play ...

Art is effective because it is safe.  You can read a novel and experience the horror of a prison or the beauty of deep love -- but you don...

Art can have a tremendous effect on the world -- that is why dictators have been so eager to lock artists away or employ them as propagandis...

There are many examples of art changing the course of history, advancing revolutions, bringing stone-cold people to tears and horrifying con...

For a plethora of positive reasons, I was only able to finish reading a mere five books in 2025.  They are as follows. Emerging from the ...