P.D.Q. Bach Quotes

I relax my body completely, relax my mind completely, and then imagine myself at a level where anything can happen.

Then be sure of one thing: The Is has imagined it quite a bit better than you have. The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.

And like no other sculpture in the history of art, the dead engine and dead airframe come to life at the touch of a human hand, and join their life with the pilot's own.

Build an inner place to protect your truth.

I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom.

Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs?

I think there's an invisible principle of living too. If we believe we're guided through every step of our lives, we are. It's a lovely sight, watching it work.

Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.

Flyers have a sense of adventures yet to come, instead of dimly recalling adventures of long ago as the only moments in which they truly lived.

Nothing good is a miracle, nothing lovely is a dream.

Everything of this life as a mortal is fiction. It seems real, but...

We design our lives through the power of our choices. We feel most helpless when we've made choices by default, when we haven't designed our lives on our own.

I do not enjoy writing at all. If I can turn my back on an idea, out there in the dark, if I can avoid opening the door to it, I won't even reach for a pencil.

I'll quote the truth wherever I find it thank you.

To learn anything, you must put aside the safety of your ignorance.

Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying.

The ideas behind the words are simple ones that work in everyday life; find what we most want to do; do it, no matter what; and in the doing be guaranteed a very difficult and a very happy lifetime.

Anybody who's ever mattered, anybody who's ever been happy, anybody who's ever given any gift into the world has been a divinely selfish soul, living for his own best interest. No exceptions.

What would our lives be like without tests, odds against us, adventure, risk?

Whatever We Hold in Thought Comes True in Our Experience; Like Attracts Like; we experiment with the Law of Changing Appearances, to make our outer world reflect our inner.

We thought humble and proud at the same time, all at once in love again with this painful bittersweet lovely thing called flight.

An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding.

Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you'll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask.

The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, 'I've got responsibilities.

For pilots sometimes see behind the curtain, behind the veil of gossamer velvet, and find the truth behind man, the force behind a universe.

Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.

Two thousand years ago, five thousand, they didn't have a word for imagination, and faith was the best they could come up with for a pretty solemn bunch of followers.

Individuals somehow are led to find my books at times that are important to them. The mail that I get very, very often will say, "I was at a difficult time in my life, and someone gave me a copy."

Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned.

What a delighted fascination it is, to stand aside and watch our dearest friend perform on stage without us.

Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. Reading, careful study, a little practice, and we’re throwing knives expertly, overhauling engines, speaking Esperanto like natives.

How is it we’re the lucky ones, living a life that the children-we-were took for dreams?

Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.

I take the paraglider to the mountain or I roll Daisy out of her hangar and I pick the prettiest part of the sky and I melt into the wing and then into the air, till I'm just soul on a sunbeam.

Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.

Why fly? Simple. I'm not happy unless there's some room between me and the ground.

It's too easy to do your own site to not have one these days. I guess everyone has one.

I think that the best rock n' roll is about the spirit of being young, the feeling of being 16 and getting crazy with your friends and going out to a show and just that whole feeling.

My voice has gotten me everything in my life, not my hair.

I want to do something creative, not just easy.

I do Skid Row every night.

I guess I watch more MTV than you do. I'm a junkie for it.

No, if it was up to me every record would be brand new studio material but Atlantic records asked me to put out a full live record because my tour really did do well last year.

A musician cannot move others unless he, too, is moved.

I have assigned many of my father's basses to students, without endangering their lives. Also, they do no harm to the fingers.

I can connect anything to anything.

An easy life doesn't teach us anything. In the end it's the learning that matters: what we've learned and how we've grown

Know that ever about you stands the reality of love, and each moment you have the power to transform your world by what you have learned.

Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use it.

The way to tell if your job is done: if you're alive, you've got a job.