First off I believe the majority of people don't want to only hear music but more importantly they want to feel it.
At a very young age I developed a style all my own from a very diverse variety of musical influences. Listed below are some of the most important in no particular order.
Bob Seger, Fleetwood Mac/Stevie Nicks/Lindsey Buckingham/Christine McVie, Heart/Nancy Wilson/Anne Wilson, U2, Sheryl Crow, Joni Mitchell, Sarah McLachlan, Jeff Buckley, k.d. lang, Tim Buckley, Melissa Etheridge, Rickie Lee Jones, Tom Waits, Paula Cole, Alison Krauss, Dolly Parton, Prince, Mariah Carey, Garth Brooks, Willie Nelson, Beethoven, Chopin, Hans Zimmer, James Horner, Howard Shore, Alice in Chains/Lane Staley/Jerry Cantrell, Soundgarden/Chris Cornell, Eagles/Don Henley, Lynyrd Skynyrd, G'N'R/Slash, Journey/Steve Perry/Neil Schon, Pink Floyd/David Gilmour, Led Zeppelin/Jimmy Page, Boston, Kansas, Dream Theatre/John Petrucci, Yes, Bad Company, Goo Goo Dolls, Stone Temple Pilots, Tonic, Jann Arden, Frank Sinatra, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holiday, Marvin Gaye, Alanis Morrisette, Tori Amos, James Taylor, Jim Croce, The Doors, Joan Baez, Janis Joplin, Patti Smith, Shawn Colvin, Ani DiFranco, Bob Dylan, Roberta Flack, Bon Jovi/Richie Sambora/Jon, Pearl Jam, Van Halen, Hall&Oates, Billy Joel, Billy Idol, The Doobie Brothers/Michael McDonald, Eva Cassidy, Chris Isaak, Alicia Keys, Bryan Adams, Mamas&Papas, Jefferson Airplane/Grace Slick-Jefferson Starship, ELO(Electric Light Orchestra), SRV, Santana, Creedance Clearwater Revival, Aerosmith, Whitesnake, Scorpions, Rush, Chicago, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Eric Clapton, Eric Johnson, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Sade, Etta James, Ella Fitzgerald, Bjork, Neil Young, Steely Dan, Tom Petty, Phil Collins, Carpenters, Moody Blues, Traffic, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Neil Young, Concrete Blonde/Johnette Napalitano, Dead Can Dance/Lisa Gerrard/Brendan Perry, Secret Garden, Yanni, Adiemus, Annie Lennox, Marc Cohn, Hootie&the Blowfish, Brent Mason, Norah Jones, Anggun, Tony Rice, Madonna, Boyz II Men, Lonesome River Band, Carly Simon, Madonna, Kristine Hendricks/QED, Amber, Tiesto, Darren Tate, Armin Van Buren, ATB, Valentin, Deepdish, Ian Van Dahl, Pink, Natasha Beddingfield, Daniel Beddingfield, Kylie Minogue, Dani Minogue, Plumb, Inuyasha, Davis, Kopi Luwak, Allison Zopel, Reina, Rachel Leigh,
Affiliated BMI writer/composer/publisher Music Moonk Music (BMI); singer-songwriter-musician-poetess-artist.
I was born into a family with a strong musical background in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains in southwest Virginia. I began singing at four years of age, playing the guitar at six, songwriting around ten years, and expressing myself through visual art. Having roots in the styles of bluegrass and country music, and classic rock. I soon after developed my own sound and playing style, branching out from a wide variety of musical styles; many genres like: rock, folk, grunge, world, new age, classical, jazz, and the blues
In high school I began playing a classical guitar style, thus implementing a more sophisticated sound into my compositions. I spent some time in a local rock band in my high school as a lead guitarist, backup and lead vocalist. In college jazz was one of the major catalysts in my musical and artistic development. I joined the jazz ensemble and was their lead guitarist for a couple of years. I can tell you that playing jazz made me ten times the musician I was beforehand. Also whilst attending college I joined the Chorus and got the opportunity and experience of singing behind an major symphony --- twice. In the 1990’s I periodically played bass guitar for my family’s bluegrass gospel group around the region.
In 1999 I was in a car accident that forever changed my life. Sustaining a severe head injury I was brought back and in a coma for some time. Slept right through my eighteenth birthday until I finally awoke in Atlanta's Sheperds Center hospital (God Bless you). Basically jolted backwards to the mental capacity of a toddler I had to re-learn everything; walking, talking, reading, writing, etc. I, along with a music therapist, had to re-teach myself music. It's been a long, hard road but all thanks be to God and a loving and supportive family I'm back and better than ever! You know if I had the opportunity to change what happened you think I would? Nope. I am a true believer in everything that happens happens for a reason. In all actuality I'm a better musician and artist after the fact. I'm here for a reason and I believe I know that reason.
My goals in music and art are such that I am looking not only to continually broaden my creative aesthetic but to also touch people's lives abroad. No matter where life’s train takes me I will make music for I am defined in song. May you listen and take something with you when you go ... God Bless.
- LeAnna Mosley
But first seek the kingdom of God and all these things shall be added unto you. - JESUS
Every once in awhile do yourself a favor and jump into a river-LeAnna Mosley
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away Henry David Thoreau
I am in the world only for the purpose of composing. - Franz Schubert
If my poetry is aimed at achieving anything it is to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel. - Jim Morrison
Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door. - Emily Dickinson
We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams. - Roald Dahl
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way. - Carl Sandburg
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.- William Morrow
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness George Jean Nathan
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness E.M. Cioran
Philosophy is the highest music Plato
Without music, life would be a mistake Freidrich Nietzsche
Music is well said to be the speech of angels Thomas Carlyle
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. Igor Stravinsky
This above all, to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.- William Shakespeare
Life is an opportunity,benefit from it.Life is a beauty,admire it.Life is a dream, realize it.Life is a challenge,meet it.Life is a duty, complete it.Life is a game,play it.Life is a promise,fulfill it. Life is sorrow,overcome it.Life is a song,sing it.Life is a struggle,accept it.Life is a tragedy,confront it.Life is an adventure,dare it.Life is luck,make it.Life is life,fight for it! - Mother Teresa
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live a life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. - Henry David Thoreau
You will rise in wake with the morning sun only to realize that Only time has passed you by. - LeAnna Mosley
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