Everyone has a story to tell and some are unfortunately less likely to share; be it the unfortunate lack of confidence, lack of privilege, or even lack of words keeping us from sharing, everyone will always have a story to tell.

Stories are one of the greatest forms of art. This is not restricted to my beliefs; I know this to be a fact. Don't get me wrong -- all forms of art are the greatest. Rhetoric is a beautiful and powerful thing yet stories let imagination and creation thrive in writing.

I am a current Music Education and Economics major at the University of Wisconsin-Madison studying economy to find a way to make music its own economic institution. I'm going to figure how other economic institutions (i.e. healthcare and general education) are successful then apply those successes to music. I'm not just foreshadowing the creation of a program or company; I'm beginning to make music a way of life. I want to show how music is a societal necessity.

A good friend once told me "With good music comes good people," but good music and good people are lost when others are afraid.

What is making people so afraid and why is art suffering as a result?

Like Franklin Roosevelt once said, "The only thing to fear is fear itself," and we, as humans, are afraid of fear and the fear of being stuck in this paradox of life: where we sacrifice love for money while sacrificing money for love and consequently and confusingly so spread violence and crime. I know music and all other forms of art is the key to breaking this life paradox, I just need you, the citizen of the world, to help me make it possible.

Like I said, some just don't have the confidence, privilege, or words to tell their story: so why not tell it through music? Music is why I believe in myself and others may believe likewise. Music the reason why I started sharing stories and art is the reason why I still have love to give.

We all have the capabilities to do good and be well in our lives. It's tragic that around the world humanity has to worry about hunger, safety, and most tragic of all, money.

If there's a way for art to be successfully acknowledged and accepted, it is through an economy. That is, after all, how this world works: economically.

I want music to thrive for all.

This is my story that will challenge "the system" or at least it may reinvent it.

Music will no longer be cut from communities...

Stories will be told around the world...

...and without the cost and fall it receives from a lack of money...

Art will begin to color our seemingly colorless world again...

... and the life, beauty, and love music always had will flourish once again.

I just need all the time and support I can get.

So eventually -- every one of us can color the world together with peace.

Everyone has a story to tell and everyone has art to share.

I thank you for the privilege of sharing my story today.