P.D.Q. Bach Quotes

Live enough of what you've always dreamed of doing, and there's no room left for feeling bad.

There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years.

We know nothing until intuition agrees.

I think our learning lies along the path of whatever it is we love.

Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.

Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.

I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?

You seek problems because you need their gifts.

If I ever grow up, I don't want to be around for it.

You ever heard of a guy named Jeff Buckley? He's one of the best singers I've ever heard.

Inside I never said I wanted to do theatre or be an actor.

I had to get out of my record deal that I signed with my previous band and get a full solo record deal going so, with all of the paperwork that, that entails it did take a while.

Every single band in the world has these gigantic songs that people are obsessed with.

Nobody wants a fat lead singer.

Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.

Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.

No one does anything uncharacteristic of who they are.

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap.

This market right now is moving on nothing more than emotions. Guess what? It almost always moves on emotions.

The more I study the wealthy.. in an effort to learn how to help more people around the world become one of them.. I'm stunned by how many people are actually not rich.

Coming in as a veteran, I'd like to finish with a gold medal.

I think, being an actor, it's just a relief every time you get a part.

Everything is exactly as it is for a reason. The crumb on your table is no mystical reminder of this morning's cookie, it is there because you have chosen not to remove it. No exceptions.

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours. Do you think, if you say the word "impossible" enough times, that difficult things will suddenly become easier for you?

Don't fear change. It's always for the best.

One of the cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience.

We design our lives through the power of choices.

Sometimes when learning comes before experience It doesn't make sense right away.

If you're always looking at someone else, trying to imitate them, how can your natural gifts ever emerge?

We magnetize into our lives whatever we hold in our thought.

It doesn’t take time to change once you understand the problem...Somebody hands you a rattlesnake, it doesn’t take long to drop it, does it?

The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.

There is something to astrology for those who believe in astrology, as there is something to medicine for those who believe in medicine. Every system works when we give our heart to it.

In order to win, you must expect to win.

Of course there’s destiny, but destiny doesn’t push you where you don’t want to go. You’re the ones who choose. Destiny is up to you.

There is something that is transcendental about when we are immersed in that which we most love.

It’s not when you start that makes your success in the world, but when you quit.

Does anybody learn writing, or do they just touch someone who lets them see the power of the deleted word?

Whatever it is that calls us, that's our path. And as we walk that path, we have a chance to shine forth who we are. It affects other people around us.

The big thing about writing is three commands: Have fun. Don't think. Don't care.

Character comes from following our highest sense of right, from trusting ideas without being sure they’ll work.

The great thing about writing is, if you don't like the world, we'll create a different one.

nobody means to get carried away in mediocrity, but it happens, it happens unless you think about everything you do, unless you make every choice the best one you know how to make.

It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid?

Reality is divinely indifferent.