tonight our summer recess composite focusing this time o music and beginning with patti smith. >> he says when i create art it'sike holdinhands with god. that was one of the first thing that robert said to me when we were quite young. and that was, you know, to me it expresses so much of who he was, the depth of where his work went. even if it has nothing to do really with religion, although he was brought up catholic. when he was using the term god, he just means the highest aspect of things. >> charlie: and we continue with sting. >> i think the perfect music is probably silence. as musicians, all we reall do is we create a rather beautiful and all made frame for that perfection which is silence. some of my favorite artists use silence very carefully and very artistically. miles davis for example, knew the value of the measure of not playing. so what he didn't play was this eloquent as what he was did play. >> charlie: from my home state of north carolina, james taylor. >> i don't really feel as though i write songs, i feel as though i hear them first. and remember them and get the