P.D.Q. Bach Quotes

You're master of what you've lived, artisan at what you're living, amateur at what's next to live.

With every choice you risk the life you would have had; with every decision, you lose it.

Only a few people are interested in what you have to say, but that is all right. You don't have to tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds.

No matter how qualified you are, you won't reach a better life until you imagine it.

I have always wanted an adventurous life. It took a long time to realize that I was the only one who could make an adventurous life happen to me.

How easy it is to be compassionate when it's yourself you see in trouble.

We love action and adventure, but we use it to go out and start wars and kill people.

I have a way of finding what is true for me, and it’s not finished yet.

Testing ourselves over and again, learning love and love and LOVE!

How much to learn if we could spend one hour, spend twenty minutes, with the us we will become! How much could we say to the us we were.

It’s okay is a cosmic truth…It’s okay. If there were nothing here for us to learn, we wouldn’t bother to pay the fare.

Think about these once in awhile, and watch your answers change.

You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.

Maybe if they start playing new rock bands videos, then maybe but there is no point in a guy like me spending 250 grand for a video that no one is ever going to see.

Sometimes you can do things for people other than yourself.

I acted in millions of TV shows.

Kids don't go out and buy CDs, they make their own, they download them from the Internet.

The way I look at a solo project is, I create what I want with whoever I want.

You know what I'm doing starting 1st November? Jesus Christ Superstar.

Knowledge without action cost money

One thing I always tell people. If you want to be gold medalist, you partner one.

As you believe, so it is for you.

Fail at love, and the other tests don't matter.

Before you'll change, something important must be at risk.

Nobody comes to Earth to dodge problems. We come here to take 'em on.

Numbers are limits, and perfection doesn't have limits.

A lot of people when they try to sing Skid Row songs, they're screaming and yelling too much. It's more singing than screaming.

I get noticed for different things I've done in different areas of town. If I'm in a rock club, it'll be Skid Row, if I'm in a mall it's the 'Gilmore Girls.'

My vocal style is called bel canto, which is an old Italian vocal style going back hundreds of years.

It is easy for me to go play a rock show, I have been doing that all my life and I love that.

Having made the decision to love, had I chosen life instead of death?

don't you think between here and now we will see each other once or twice?

In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.

GREAT SECRET Whenever I’m learning something difficult, I keep expectations low, and aspirations high.

People should take every opportunity they can to save money because it really adds up, and the best way I know to do that is to make your savings automatic.

The earlier you start, the easier it is to accumulate major wealth. Still, it's never really too late to begin.

Remember that small steps can create giant leaps over time, so never think of any financial or spending matter as a small one.

When I'm on the court, I'm a follower.

A hero is someone who, for the general good, takes the initiative to solve an ambiguous problem.

David Duchovny is a dream; a dreamboat and a dream. He was so kind... He held my hand after we were done shooting and told me I did great. He's so good at what he does.

TV is so seductive with a great workday. You're going to work and making people laugh, and that's fantastic.

We film in front of a live audience, and I was a theater actor before I got into television, so I like that.

Most wine knowledge does not directly enhance the pleasures to be had in drinking wine but, rather, enhances one's ability to discover such pleasures

People who say that they can't appreciate a great wine generally haven't tasted one

Yes, expertise puts on in position to have further, cognitive pleasures, but these pleasures are distinct from the sensory pleasure of tasting wines

You can't solve problems for someone whose problem is that they don't want problems solved.

Every problem in your life carries a gift inside it.

Hate is love without enough data.

How can we resent the life we've created for ourselves?

Thought plus belief equals manifestation.