I'm a dental hygienist and I have been since 1965.
I'm touching people, healing them, helping them.
I like the relationships with the people.
One of my favorite patients was Leonard Rosenman, the film composer.
One day he bounced in and he just looked at me straight on and he said, Linda, I can't
believe this is all you do.
And he had heard me say, I write little songs.
So he said, can I hear those songs?
So I made a little tape in my kitchen and I gave it to him the next time I saw him.
And the next day he said, we want to write music with you.
Those songs are beautiful.
It became the first album called Parallelograms.
I like the sound effects around here.
The trees, the wind, it feels good.
Nature has that hum.
We feel hungry for the naturalness of sand under our feet, the sound of ocean that's
so soothing to people to hear just the waves.
There's a reason why we strive to be around that.
It does something to us that maybe we don't have words for.
As I write music, I try to connect with that hum.
My goal is to transcend and lift people's awareness or spectrum into a place of awe.
The universe is filled with so much beauty, so much design, so much creation, so music
to me is a way of saying, lift your mind, pay attention.
There's something here you need to know about.
Now I'm making music and I'm in the studio because I know there's a need out there that
people don't always want to listen to what is the mainstream.
When I'm creating music that isn't formula music and it isn't a copy of somebody else's
style, it's just truthful and gentle.
We're in a very tumultuous world.
I think we all need to hear hope.
I think we all need to hear healing.
I think we all need to hear some peace of mind.
Well at this point, people are asking me, isn't it time for you to leave dental hygiene?
And then I look around and I think, well, what would I do without all these beautiful
patients that give me so many inspirations for my music?
I learn a lot from my patients.
I think my life might be too empty without them.
