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Your music—the music that comes from your hands and your heart and your soul—will transport them, will suck them up into the vortex of your sound, and they’ll come away changed. Perhaps more joyful, perhaps more thoughtful. You’ve taken
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“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”
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“Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.”
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“I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.”
― I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence
― I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence
“Anything worthwhile takes time. Maybe that's what time is for: to give meaning to the things we do; to create a context in which we can linger in something until, finally, we have given it something invaluable, something that we can never get back: time. And once we've invested the most precious commodity that we will ever have, it suddenly has meaning and importance. So maybe time is just how we measure meaning. Maybe time is how we best measure love.”
― Hell of a Book
― Hell of a Book
“Consciously, I am certainly an atheist, but I do not say it out loud, because if I look at Bach, I cannot be an atheist. Then I have to accept the way he believed. His music never stops praying. And how can I get closer if I look at him from the outside? I do not believe in the Gospels in a literal fashion, but a Bach fugue has the Crucifixion in it – as the nails are being driven in. In music, I am always looking for the hammering of the nails … That is a dual vision. My brain rejects it all. But my brain isn’t worth much.’31”
― Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven
― Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven
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