15 quotes found
“I'll love you with all the madness in my soul.”
“Aging is scary but fascinating, and great talent morphs in strange and often enlightening ways.”
“As Branford Marsalis said in a beautiful essay he write upon Clarence's death, C was blessed with 'the power of musical intent.”
“I would spend my life on the road logging hundreds of thousands of miles and my story was always the same. . . man comes to town, detonates; man leaves town and drives off into the evening; fade to...”
“As we'd slogged away for weeks on the Convention Hall stage in isolation, trying to pump life into our much-vaunted songbook, there'd been only one thing missing: you.”
“Rock 'n' roll music, in the end, is a source of religious and mystical power. Your playing can suck, your singing can be barely viable, but if when you get together with your pals in front of your ...”
“The endorphin high of birth will fade, but its trace remains with you forever, its fingerprints indelible proof of love's presence and daily grandeur. You have offered up your prayer. You have vowe...”
“There is no evidence of the soul except in tis sudden absence. A nothingness enters, taking the place where something was before. A night without stars falls and for a moment covers everything in t...”
“The blues dont jump right on you. They come creeping. Shortly after my sixtieth I slipped into a depression like I hadnt experienced since that dusty night in Texas thirty years earlier. It lasted ...”
“Antidepression medication is temperamental. Somewhere around fifty-nine or sixty I noticed the drug Id been taking seemed to have stopped working. This is not unusual. The drugs interact with your ...”
“The primary math of the real world is one and one equals two. The layman (as, often, do I) swings that every day. He goes to the job, does his work, pays his bills and comes home. One plus one equa...”
“First, you write for yourself... always, to make sense of experience and the world around you. Its one of the ways I stay sane. Our stories, our books, our films are how we cope with the random tra...”
“All I do know is that as we age the weight of our unsorted baggage becomes heavier...much heavier. With each passing year, the price of our refusing to do that sorting rises higher and higher.”
“You lay claim to your stories; you honor, with your hard work and the best of your talent, their inspirations, and you fight to tell them well from a sense of indebtedness and thankfulness. The amb...”
“Now, some guys' five minutes are worth other guys' fifty years, and while burning out in one brilliant supernova will send record sales through the roof, leave you living fast, dying young, leaving...”
