John Quotes
Someone Else's words can detour your potential!
Music without the ebb and flow would be like "watching a film with only good guys in it." -attrib Frank Zappa
Jazz will endure as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains
The music brought us what it seemed / We had long desired, but in a form / so rarefied there was no emptiness of sensation
nothing is accomplished by writing a piece of musicnothing is accomplished by hearing a piece of musicnothing is accomplished by playing a piece of musicour ears are now in excellent condition.
A translation is no translation, ’ he said, ‘unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.
How strange it would now — like speaking without a voice. Is that what music is then, a ventriloquist with his doll ?
Once we got out of Jefferson Park, we rolled down the one window that worked so the world would know we had good taste in music.
Like Garth Brooks said about it, you need to live where you could honestly choose, if you had to, on whether to give up one yesterday for one more tomorrow, you have to be able to say no to that.
You can get in a car in Maine and drive all the way to California and hear the same Top 40 songs on the same chain broadcasters, ” bemoaned the report.
Walter Pater said that all the arts aspire to the condition of music, but I’ve always felt that music aspires to the condition of words.
Banks do not create money for the public good. They are businesses owned by private shareholders. Their purpose is to make a profit.
But even a medicine man like myself has to have some money, because you force me to live in your make-believe world where I can't get along without it.
...true love is an irrevocable act - you can only give your heart away once - after that, you give as much as you have left ...
You shall love your neighbourWith your crooked heart, It says so much about love and brokenness -- it's perfect.
Strangely incurious, her lovers from before. She has worlds within I'm longing to explore.
She had a very inconvenient heart. It always insisted on feeling things ever so deeply.
She thirsted for love, but found only a mirage. Some hearts are a desert you can die wandering in.
When life gets dark, that's when stars appear among us. Shine bright, beautiful ones. Throw light from your burning hearts.
When I lean my ear up against your seashell heart, I can hear an ocean of love roaring inside.
And if we never visit Paris, that's okay. Your heart is my exotic destination every day.
The door to her heart was locked up tight, but he could still see a faint glow escaping through the keyhole.
You rang my heart like a church bell at midnight. Trembling, I awoke to the sweet sound of love.
With rough hands and gentle heart, I'll seduce you. You will feel my power and surrender to desire.
My heart had been a darkened room for so very long, but then you found the light switch.
Even when your heart is blue, I'll safely hold it. I really don't mind these indigo-stained hands.
He turned his gaze upon her, and their eyes not only met, the pupils shook hands, exchanged business cards, and sat down for tea together.
You’re not doing a good job of selling me this dumb fantasy. I’m not climbing into the back of your van if I have to be Robin. I’m Batman. That’s how these things work.
He had to die someday too. He might do it on sheets with a six-hundred-plus thread count, but he'd die just the same. Death wouldn't forget about him.
The first thing you lose when you die is your motor skills.
You can’t stay in a Blackberry mindset and become an Apple!
The Degree to which I am blessed staggers me... the degree to which I take that for granted shames me.-Streetwalking with Jesus
The salvation of all the elect is not less certain than the power of God is invincible.
When God descends to us he, in a certain sense, abases himself and stammers with us, so He allows us to stammer with Him
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree......unless that tree's growing on top of a hill.
As I child, I came to this idea with a horrified fascination. Once upon a time, I wasn’t here. Before that, my parents weren’t here. And before that…