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#1

“I'm forty-two," he said. "That's eighty-four in musician years.”
― Monica Wood

tags: age, ageing, forties, funny-quotes, humor, musicians, rock-and-roll

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#2

“Pythagoras felt that specific notes affected people to very minute gradations of feeling. And every songwriter, I think, knows that D is a great key for a long song. It just happens to work. And B flat is always a great jump key for jazz.
~ Janis Ian”
― Paul Zollo, Songwriters On Songwriting

tags: music, musicians, songwriters

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#3

“Because I have a program of recovery I recognize that I must when in crisis:
1. Acknowledge it.
2. Believe it could improve.
3. Ask for help.”
― Russell Brand, Mentors: How to Help and Be Helped

tags: self-help

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#4

“Once when asked how I would like to be remembered, I answered, "As someone who opened doors.”
― Dave Brubeck

tags: music, musicians

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#5

“We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.”
― Martin Buber

tags: honesty, hope, insignt, recovery, redemption

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#6

“Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those who suffered from it were most likely to recover.”
― Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

tags: alcoholism, disease, pathology, recovery, rehab

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#7

“Instead of saying, "I'm damaged, I'm broken, I have trust issues" say "I'm healing, I'm rediscovering myself, I'm starting over.”
― Horacio Jones

tags: abuse-survivors, broken, damaged, healing, healing-the-past, mental-illness, positive-thinking, postive, recovery, reframing, relationship-issues, shattered, starting-over, survivors, trust, trust-issues

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#8

“We must be content to grow slowly. Most of us will still barely be at the beginning of our recovery by the time we die. But that is better than killing ourselves pretending to be healthy.”
― Simon Tugwell

tags: courage, hope, life, recovery

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#9

“Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.”
― Mark Twain

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#10

“Making amends is not only saying the words but also being willing to listen to how your behavior caused another’s pain, and then the really hard part…changing behavior.”
― David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough

tags: 4th-step, 5th-step, amends, chaos, chnage, dysfunctional, dysfunctional-families, family, forgiveness, love, recovery

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#11

“I swear, with Chloe Bear once again as my witness...

That my problems and failures will not stop me, nor will they dictate who I am.

That I will continue to be my own person.

That life is too short, and I will live every day as the best person I can be.

That I will grow and that I will change.

That I will smile and hold my head high.

That this is a new start and a new day.

That I will allow myself to cry or sit by myself when I need to.

That I will find things to really smile about.”
― Stephen Emond, Happyface

tags: depression, recovery

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#12

“Now, as I understand it, the bards were feared. They were respected, but more than that they were feared. If you were just some magician, if you'd pissed off some witch, then what's she gonna do, she's gonna put a curse on you, and what's gonna happen? Your hens are gonna lay funny, your milk's gonna go sour, maybe one of your kids is gonna get a hare-lip or something like that — no big deal.

You piss off a bard, and forget about putting a curse on you, he might put a satire on you. And if he was a skilful bard, he puts a satire on you, it destroys you in the eyes of your community, it shows you up as ridiculous, lame, pathetic, worthless, in the eyes of your community, in the eyes of your family, in the eyes of your children, in the eyes of yourself, and if it's a particularly good bard, and he's written a particularly good satire, then three hundred years after you're dead, people are still gonna be laughing, at what a twat you were.”
― Alan Moore

tags: artists, artists-way, bard, irony, modernity-is-a-sickness, musicians, politics, satire, singers, songwriters

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#13

“Music is my religion.”
― Jimi Hendrix

tags: musicians

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#14

“I asked about the price of the guitars, reminding him that if expected me to man the cash register, I’d need to know what to charge. He told me, 'There ain’t no set price on these babies. Take what the customer offers you. Even if it’s his soul.”
― Brenda Sutton Rose

tags: blues, guitars, magical-realism, music, musicians, selling-your-soul, short-stories, southern-fiction, southern-gothic

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#15

“I can't discard a verse before it is written because it is the writing of the verse that produces whatever delights or interests or facets that are going to catch the light. The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines. You can't discover that in the raw. ~ Leonard Cohen”
― Paul Zollo, Songwriters On Songwriting

tags: creativity, music, musicians, songwriters, songwriting

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#16

“Hollowness: that I understand. I'm starting to believe that there isn't anything you can do to fix it. That's what I've taken from the therapy sessions: the holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

tags: answers-to-despair, experience, finding-hope, hardship, hollowness, learning, lessons, life, life-discovery, life-lessons, recovery

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#17

“Nothing comes to sleepers but dreams.”
― Prince, The Beautiful Ones Sheet Music

tags: musicians

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#18

“Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

tags: life, love, music, simile, song

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#19

“My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads. "Why don't you have a straight job like everyone else?" they asked me the other day.

I told them this story:
In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, "Look at me...I'm tall, and I'm straight, and I'm handsome. Look at you...you're all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you." And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, "Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest." So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day.”
― Tom Waits

tags: humor, individuality, music, musician, non-conformity

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#20

“First, the physiological symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder have been brought within manageable limits. Second, the person is able to bear the feelings associated with traumatic memories. Third, the person has authority over her memories; she can elect both to remember the trauma and to put memory aside. Fourth, the memory of the traumatic event is a coherent narrative, linked with feeling. Fifth, the person's damaged self-esteem has been restored. Sixth, the person's important relationships have been reestablished. Seventh and finally, the person has reconstructed a coherent system of meaning and belief that encompasses the story of trauma.”
― Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

tags: complex-ptsd, healing, healing-abuse, healing-process, post-traumatic-stress-disorder, posttraumatic-stress-disorder, psychotherapy, ptsd, recovery, recovery-from-abuse, therapy, trauma, trauma-therapy, traumatic-stress

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#21

“Maybe you've gotten through something and when you did you thought, I am leaving that behind and will never return. And that's a great way of thinking...for selfish jerks.

If we actually care about people other than ourselves, we can't leave our problems behind and never return. If we don't take the freedom we've experienced and try to bring it to others, we are not becoming people worth becoming.”
― Vince Antonucci, Guerrilla Lovers: Changing the World With Revolutionary Compassion

tags: compassion, concern-for-others, freedom, growth, healing, learning, past, recovery, selfishness, teaching

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#22

“I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.”
― Tom Waits

tags: music, power-of-music

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#23

“There are hundreds of thousands of musicians, artists, painters, poets, writers and bricklayers, and we certainly need walls, music and art, but I truly believe that what some of them do comes from a higher source.”
― Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

tags: artists, higher-power, higher-power-quotes, higher-self, musicians, painters, poets, writers, writing-philosophy

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#24

“I believe in recovery, and as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.”
― Ann Richards

tags: belief, believe, mistake, recovery, responsibility, responsible, role-model, young, youth

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#25

“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.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

tags: appreciation, inspiration, power-of-music

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#26

“am able to alleviate fear through prayer and meditation, the continuing knowledge that my life is not just my engagement with external phenomena.”
― Russell Brand, Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions

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#27

“Music is the strongest form of magic.”
― Marilyn Manson

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#28

“If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC”
― kurt vonnegut

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#29

“For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.”
― Eric Clapton

tags: blues, music, power-of-music

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#30

“Never underestimate the grace of bouncing back from a fallen heart.”
― Angelica Hopes, Rhythm of a Heart, Music of a Soul

tags: broken-heart, quotes, recovery, reflections

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