top of page
.png){kind=small}
More
"I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn't like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way."
Author Name
Personal Development
"At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night."
Author Name
Personal Development
"In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered."
Author Name
Personal Development
"We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath."
Author Name
Personal Development
"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."
Author Name
Personal Development
"So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind."
Music
"It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience."
May
"If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven."
Day
"One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife."
Music
"Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world."
Expression
"A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity."
Experience
"Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth."
Truth
"There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life."
Experience
"If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?"
Wife
"But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense."
Music
bottom of page