John Quotes

In a way records are like paintings. Instead of using paints and brushes we use sounds and instruments.

The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture.

The moment you start to talk about playing music, you destroy music. It cannot be talked about. It can only be played, enjoyed and listened to.

When the music arrives in my mind, it gives me the direction and the form at the same time. It's integrated into the music itself.

I just want to keep exploring music and hopefully the orders will keep coming in and I'll be able to keep growing the interior and exterior sides of my life.

I believe that nothing in life is unimportant every moment can be a beginning.

Do not forget to hope and happy be.

It's the journey that's important, not the getting there!

We oft question and compare.... Is the journey so important or the getting there?

Love much dear friends for love will bring the healing joy and hope of Spring. . .

Love is ever where the heart will find it no matter how unlikely seems the place.

Life, sometimes so wearying is worth its weight in gold the experience of traveling lends a wisdom that is old.

Yet still the time:- 'It's so nice to come home'.

The whole point of life is to maximize your emotional income. Getting that ball and going is a tremendous physical thrill, an ego thrill, a personal power satisfaction.

At some point, you have to sit down and face the page alone. At some point, the final decisions need to be yours. At some point, you have to give yourself deadlines and stick to them.

He (Dave Brower) is an emotionalist in an age of dangerous reason.

He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between.

To find a script that works with provocative ideas is hard to find.

You see a lot of good ideas or well-written scripts that are bad ideas.

This self-defeating behavior, so the argument goes, must be the result of warped domestic politics.

The brain appears to have been designed to solve problems related to surviving in an outdoor setting, in unstable meteorological conditions, and to do so in near constant motion.

You don't have a work brain and a home brain. You have a single brain, one you carry with you wherever you go. Whatever affects you in one place is fully capable of affecting you at the other.

If managers knew how deeply their behaviors could affect brain function - whether they are piling up too much work on someone or yelling at them for "motivational purposes", they would quit doing it.

The brain doesn't pay attention to boring things.

We are human because we can fantasize.

Every brain is wired differently from every other brain, and learns in ways unique to that wiring.

Brain scientists and education scientists don't get together very often, and we end up living in our own little silos.

To put it bluntly, research shows that we can’t multitask. We are biologically incapable of processing attention-rich inputs simultaneously.

What's obvious to you is obvious to you.

The brain doesn't care about change. As the world's most sophisticated survival organ, the brain cares about loss.

The distance between a gene and a behavior is of greatest interest to me. The relative contributions of nature and nurture, of nucleotide and nuclear family, are perpetually fascinating to me.

Not even identical twins can have the exact same experiences, and their brains are not wired the same way.

A factory worker at an assembly line, who can learn their job in 5 minutes, can get bored fairly easily, and disengage completely.

If you are curious, you won't be satisfied with the "tyranny of custom." People stuck in that rut might say "why?" and the first thing an exploratory person would say is "why not?"

You can practice for 30 years and still not be a Mozart. The most lethal combination would be a Mozart who practiced for thousands of hours.

I have great confidence in human curiosity - even though I don't know what curiosity is from a biological point of view. One of its characteristics has got to be the willingness to explore.

Human learning is a very aggressive style in its native state. I am not sure why, though it is a very useful trait in an unstable, unpredictable living environment.

Babies learn through a series of increasingly self-corrected ideas. They use very sophisticated hypothesis testing strategies to find out about their world.

We have been lied to and terrorized by our own government, and it is time to take action.

I know a lot of funny people in a lot of funny places.

This is about black people selling out other black people.

You have to reinvent yourself.

Back in the '80s and '90s, when there was still a record business, there was pressure on anyone who was fortunate to have a few hits on a major label to continue that success.

My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Hoagy Carmichael, so if somebody cared to research, they would find a wealth of material.

What's the difference? One guy's the same as the other.

His frustration running very high, he takes it out on the ones he loves because it's safe.

Rock'n'roll starts between the legs and goes through the heart, then to the head. As long as it does those three things, it's a great rock song.

I'm not a nostalgic person. I'm not nostalgic about much of anything.

The Internet is the wrong direction for music.

The reason I said the Internet is dangerous is that a couple smart guys could hack into a computer and shut down the Eastern seaboard if they wanted to. It's a terrible, out-of-control thing.