“By the way, this tells you why Auto-Tuned vocals on many contemporary records sound so shallow and lifeless. Its almost as if everything we learned from African American music during the twentieth ...”

“In every sphere of social interaction, that hermeneutic leapthat ability to put yourself in the mind frame of the otheris a virtue and a blessing.”

“When stealing from other players, an older musician wisely advised me, choose a different instrument from your own, and people wont notice the theft.”

“Art and disease proliferate via contagion, and similar conditions favor both.”

“The work of art always requires us to adapt to itand in this manner can be distinguished from escapism or shallow entertainment, which instead aims to adapt to the audience, to give the public exac...”

“In every sphere of social interaction, that hermeneutic leap—that ability to put yourself in the mind frame of the other—is a virtue and a blessing.”

“No matter what happens in your life, keep an open heart and mind with a gentle smile. It's the true beauty of the heart.”

“It's still ok to dream with a broken heart.”

“Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their young, their mate, and their pack. They ar...”

“To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.”

“art is risk made visible”

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”

“All your thoughts, imagination, feelings, emotions and sensation are part of the mechanical process that can be understood, at the state of self-realization.”

“Think independently and critically, but never forget to think with understanding and love.”

“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.”