"If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple."

Music, Metaphor, Creativity, Art

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"If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple."

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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

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"Music can touch that deepest portion of the soul where nothing else can reach. It can fill our hearts with indescribable ecstasy."

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"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."

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"Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower."

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"The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte."

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"Desire is like fog on a bathroom mirror -- its presence incites you to wipe the mirror, and see yourself clearly again."

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"If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options.You can climb it and cross to the other side.You can go around it.You can dig under it.You can fly over it.You can blow it up.You can ignore it and pretend it's not there.You can turn around and go back the way you came.Or you can stay on the mountain and make it your home."

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"There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter - an act."

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"Would you like to know your future?If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator.So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence -- a surprise."

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"Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow."

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"Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation."

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"The other day, when I was deciding where to place a mountain range, how to make a river's flow detour around underground stalactite caves, and what precise color to give the sky at sunset, I realized I was God... or an artist and a writer."

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"I've just been bitten on the neck by a vampire... mosquito. Does that mean that when the night comes I will rise and be annoying?"

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