There are just tons of songs out there that are really good, and that really speak to me, that move me. There is Opera that will bring me close to tears (you get Opera, or you don’t).

Anyone who listened to Elton John playing “Candle in the Wind 1997″ at Princess Diana’s funeral was almost surely moved.

I saw Fiddler on the Roof at the Royal Albert Hall in Kensington London England as a grade school child and knew right then I would also learn to play both violin and the fiddle that my Mom was teaching me.

Bob Seger, Simon and Garfunkle, Credence Clearwater Revival and Patsy Cline, as well as Maynard Ferguson; Earth, Wind, and Fire, and John Coltrane all influenced my life of playing the Saxophone, Flute, and Clarinet; as well as their ability to be incorporated into almost any genre of music have been a major force in my life. I’m a fan if Bach, Chopin, and Shostakovich. There is a version of Amazing Grace by the Statler Brothers that goes from a twangy country fiddle to a full blown Philharmonic orchestra with some acapella thrown in that is absolutely beautiful in my Tennessee Mountain Homeland. I’ll just mention the song Rocky Top because it is such a wonderful song to sing with 104,000 of my closest friends on a Saturday afternoon of SEC Football.

However, the song that moves me the most is the Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key as sung by Whitney Houston at the Super Bowl. That song sums up why I spent 21 years in the military. That song explains why I would, and still will, die for this magnificent country we call the United States of America. The land of dreams and fulfillment that I love more than life itself, the Home of the Brave. That song gives me butterflies in my stomach to this very day.