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"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."
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"Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth."
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Personal Development
"Music is happiness with a steady pulse."
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Personal Development
"Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows."
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Personal Development
"I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs."
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Personal Development
"Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio."
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"When can you understand that the music you play is very good? It is when people look at you but see no one, no one but the music!"
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Personal Development
"When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest."
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"You cannot taste a song but you can feel the tune relishing your heart where strings of music belong."
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"Orgy-porgy, round and round and round, beating one another in six-eight time."
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"You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too."
Diplomacy
"It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you."
Trust
"Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter."
Expectation
"The Amen is only as good as the attitude. If you are trying to finish up quickly so you can check your cell phone messages, you are missing the chance to spend quiet moments with the giver of life and the eternal, which means you may reap continued feelings of life racing along without you. So as Samuel Beckett admonished us to fail again, and fail better, we try to pray again, and pray better, for slightly longer and with slightly more honesty, breathing more, deeper, and with more attention."
Faith
"We stitch together quilts of meaning to keep us warm and safe, with whatever patches of beauty and utility we have on hand."
Meaning
"Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and Jesus."
Religion
"I am not writing to try and convert people to fundamental Christianity. I am just trying to share my experience, strength and hope, that someone who is as messed up and neurotic and scarred and scared can be fully accepted by our dear Lord, no questions asked."
Faith
"I like to think that Henry James said his classic line, "A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost," while looking for his glasses, and that they were on top of his head."
Awareness
"It's incredibly touching when someone who seems so hopeless finds a few inches of light to stand in and makes everything work as well as possible. All of us lurch and fall, sit in the dirt, are helped to our feet, keep moving, feel like idiots, lose our balance, gain it, help others get back on their feet, and keep going."
Humanity
"There may be a Nurse Ratched-like listing of things that must be done right this moment: foods that must come out of the freezer, appointments that must be canceled or made, hairs that must be tweezed. But you hold an imaginary gun to your head and make yourself stay at the desk."
Discipline
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