John Quotes

I needed another basis for musical structure. This I found in sound's duration parameter, sound's only parameter which is present even when no sound is intended.

Some people take music too seriously, and some don't take it seriously enough, others take it just right.

If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.

If there are questions then, of course, there are answers, but the final answer makes the questions seem absurd.

It is not the fact that a man has riches which keeps him from the kingdom of heaven, but the fact that riches have him.

There was a time where I was the youngest one in any group, and now when I turn around sometimes, I'm the oldest one in every group. It just seemed to flip-flop one day - it wasn't a gradual thing.

That's what my life is, writing songs.

It would be a stronger world, a stronger, loving world, to die in.

In the studio you have pretty much carte blanche with whatever you're doing. You can turn natural instruments into electronic instruments.

I never use the word, it's loaded. What love means to me is need.

We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance.

People sort of know me for that solo piano music I did.

I'm content with making records, but I don't want to be doing the same thing all the time.

I'm impatient. I get twitchy. When I get that feeling I just go out and make something happen.

I like it here in New York. I like the idea of having to keep eyes in the back of your head all the time.

The value of having a computer, to me, is that it'll remember everything you do. It's a databank.

I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels.

When you're trying to make somebody the best version of themselves, you have to keep defining that over a period of time because sometimes it changes.

When your best players are really good guys, it's the best.

Generational poverty, most of us don't know what that means.

Everything all of us do is stolen from somebody.

That's America, competition.

All the teams you have have different personalities, and you kind of want it.

If I ever tell the same story twice, just laugh and roll with it because, when you get older, you start doing that kind of stuff.

We can't have one group that oversees everything and then they define what amateurism is.

We're not moving fast enough with where things are going.

I know I'm not a saint, but I'm not the guy I'm made out to be by others.

You want perfection, go to a bowling alley!

The name of Christ excludes all merit of our own.

In truth we know by experience that song has great force and vigour to move and inflame the hearts of men to invoke and praise God with a more vehement and ardent zeal.

Tears that are shed in time of affliction are rarely tears of penitence, but more likely they are shed out of self pity and pain or sorrow.

It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3)

If everything proceeded according to their wishes, they would not understand what it means to follow God.

It is a very important consideration that we are consecrated and dedicated to God; it means that we may think, speak, meditate, or do anything only with a view to his glory.

Faith and patience are exceptional virtues in those that suffer. Patience is the fruit and evidence of faith.

In the maxims of the law, God is seen as the rewarder of perfect righteousness and the avenger of sin. But in Christ, His face shines out, full of grace and gentleness to poor, unworthy sinners.

No Task will be so sordid and base, provided you obey your calling in it, that it will not shine and be reckoned very precious in God's sight.

If we are given gold, would we not test it to determine it's value? If we doubted its genuineness - we would test it by fire...and so God with us.

For our hearts are enfeebled by prosperity, so that we cannot make the effort to pray.

Free will is an empty term.

But as a heathen tells us, there is no nation so barbarous, no race so brutish as not to be imbued with the conviction that there is a God.

The vices of which we are full we carefully hide from others, and we flatter ourselves with the notion that they are small and trivial; we sometimes even embrace them as virtues.

Seeing God hath thus set us at liberty, what rashness it is for worms of the earth to make new laws; as though God had not been wise enough.

Every person, on coming to the knowledge of himself, is not only urged to seek God, but is also led as by the hand to find Him.

It is a sign of a perverse and treacherous disposition to wound the good name of another, when he has no opportunity of defending himself.

Because the will renewed is the Lord's work, it is wrongly attributed to man that he obeys prevenient grace with his will as attendant.

How can it be said that the weakness of the human will is aided so as to enable it to aspire effectually to the choice of good, when the fact is, that it must be wholly transformed and renewed?

When we recognize the rod of a father, should we not show ourselves docile children rather than rebelliously desperate men who have been hardened in their evil doings?

When we see that the whole sum of our salvation, and every single part of it, are comprehended in Christ, we must beware of deriving even the minutest portion of it from any other quarter.

It is amazing how much our lack of trust provokes God if we request of him a boon that we do not expect