P.D.Q. Bach Quotes

Reason and intellect are opening wedges in an understanding of reality.

I've been solo since 1996, so I've been doing it for a while now.

I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone.

It is incredible to me that my Twitter feed is a source of 'news' for every rock news outlet around the world.

Yes, but I have to say this: the band is going to decide where the band plays.

I'm a TV junkie. I'm always flipping through channels.

America gets rock stars a little more than Canada does.

I would play with Guns n' Roses anytime.

To think that when they come out with these gigantic songs, it's pretty tough to top them, you know.

I mean I've never been thrown in jail in New York or Los Angeles.

My first band, Kid Wicked, we did half covers and half originals.

I'm not interested in thinking up the name of a band and a logo and all that. Been there, done that, sold a million T-shirts.

I can't drink whiskey like I used to back then, that's for sure.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.Listen to it carefully.

You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours.

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding.

If you really want to remove a cloud from your life, you do not make a big production of it, you just relax and remove it from your thinking. That's all there is to it.

Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

The more I want to get something done the less I call it work.

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one famiy grow up under the same roof

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

You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.

The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness, It's Intimacy

What matters most:"What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a downy spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh."Wind, Sand and Stars.

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

if you argue for your limitations they are yours

We are game-playing, fun-having creatures, we are the otters of the universe.

What the caterpillar calls a tragedy the Master calls a butterfly.

Can miles truly separate you from friends. ... If you want to be with someone you love aren't you already there?

What the student calls a tragedy the master calls a butterfly.

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

The more I want to get something done the less I call it work.

That's a rhetorical question, and trying to answer rhetorical questions instead of being cowed by them is a good habit to cultivate.

America does not have a health-car system. We have a sick-care system... It's a stretch to use the word "system" to describe, as this word denotes organization.

Never shame your comrades by letting their death get you killed

Since, as is well know, God helps those who help themselves, presumably the Devil helps all those, and only those, who don't help themselves. Does the Devil help himself?

Fake feeling good. ... You're going to have to learn to fake cheerfulness. Believe it or not eventually that effort will pay off: you'll actually start feeling happier.

Regarding his friend's insight after losing her spouse to cancer: "She told me she had plenty of people to do things with but nobody to do nothing with.

They have had such a crazy life living with me as their dad. Not crazy but different from their friends.