The more you love, the more you can love - and the more intensely you love.
I think I know what it is but don't ask me to play it
When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people.
I never even thought about whether or not they understand what I'm doing. . . the emotional reaction is all that matters as long as there's some feeling of communication, it isn't necessary that it be understood.
The main thing a musician would like to do is to give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe.
All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.
Working with Monk brought me close to a musical architect of the highest order. I felt I learned from him in every way--through the senses, theoretically, technically. I would talk to Monk about musical problems, and he would sit at the piano and show me the answers just by playing them. I could watch him play and find out the things I wanted to know. Also, I could see a lot of things that I didn't know about at all.
No hunter of the sky should end his days as prey. Better to die on the wing than pinned to the ground. [Saphira]
The preamble of thought, the transition through which it passes from the unconscious to the conscious, is action. Only so much do I know, as I have lived. Instantly we know whose words are loaded with life, and whose not.
Its amazing waht you can get used to if your daily allowance of bizarre is high enough. '. . . . . . Harry Dresden
I was always compared to the Energizer Bunny in my consecutive game streak because every day I showed up and went to work and they said he keeps going and going and going, but a lot of people do that.