A critic should always strive to recapture the sense of wonder and surprise with which he first beheld a now-familiar work of art.
Diana Krall knocks me out. I like jazz and I like her simple approach.
We need to have music that contributes to the well-being of the spirit. Music that cradles people's lives and makes things a little easier. That's what I try to do, and what I want to do. You don't want to close the door on hope.
By the time you get close to the answers, it's nearly all over.
Lay in the weeds and wait, and when you get your chance to say something, say something good.
Faith is the only way we're going to make it. None of us are smart enough to do it on our own.
I'll tell you what the public likes more than anything, it's the most rare commodity in the world - honesty.
Teaching brings out innate powers, and proper training braces the intellect.
It has been said that God's gift is also indescribable because of the grace by which it is given. God, who is rich in mercy, gave the world the gift of His dear Son while we were at enmity with Him. Paul says: 'But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us' (Rom. 5:8). Therefore, in Him we are freely given all things: redemption, forgiveness of sins, righteousness, peace, hope, wisdom and knowledge.
The reason why we're not happy is because we believe consciously and subconsciously that we're separate from god, eternal awareness.
There's nothing left of my hometown in Kentucky. All those small and mid-sized towns and cities in the U. S. are just about malls around the edges and suburbs. That was definitely a loss, because everything just gets homogenized. You can't tell where you are, it's all the same.