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“All these years the people said 'Hes acting like a kid.' He did not know he could not fly, so he did. Well hes one of those that knows that life is just a leap of faith. So spread your arms, hold y...”
“There were no ideas in music, only touch and instinct and sometimes gracethe mechanical toolsand that among those who were given the tools, only a few, a scant few, would be able to tell you someth...”
“The radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools tryin' to anesthetize the way that you feel.”
“The music of the future will not entertainIt's only meant to repress and neutralize your brain”
“I play chicken with the train”
“In the three minutes it takes the song to play I'm caught in a magic world of harmony and joy, a truly ecstatic joy, where the aching longing to be somewhere else, out of this city, out of this cou...”
“By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, but music for the time doth change his nature....”
“The avant-garde is now an arrire-garde.”
“We all fall sometime, you're not the first. I know it hurts. In the end, you'll find what you deserve.”
“Music was a balm for any weary soul. It could either lift a person out of the doldrums or comfort him if there was no other solace to be had.”
“I wanted to smell the guitars. It's hard to explain but they have a smell. And the best way I could ever describe it would be to say they smell like potential. Ambition and desire. If such things h...”
“How does one say in the jargon of musicology that my sould was pulled out of me and thrown up in the air, to be tossed about by the music. How does one say that I breathed, that I existed, in harmo...”
“100% Reason to remember the name.”
“Had Kurt Cobain not committed suicide in 1994, would his genius have survived the continuous incisions of a media that was only too proud of its ability to chisel away at his fragile psyche in the ...”
“You havent prepared yourself for worship if you just practice musical art”
“Its not the art, its the heart. What [God] reads during our worship is the inner attitude. Worship is spiritual; its organic; its relational.”
“Music has become more pervasive and portable than ever. But it feels less previous in the bargain. I don't want to confuse artistic and commercial value, but it's just a fact that some kid who rips...”
“Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me. The guitar is my conscience, too - whenever I've lost my way,...”
“And then I notice the music flooding out of every part of the apartment at once the couch, the walls, even the floor and I know Bennies alone in Lous studio, pouring music down around us. A minut...”
“It's so funny being a Christian musician. It always scares me when people think so highly of Christian music, Contemporary Christian music especially. Because I kinda go, I know a lot of us, and we...”
