- “Understand something people, we will be hated by many in the name of Christ, ridiculed, mocked, stoned, slaughtered. We will be fined, jailed and killed for our love for Christ. You are supposed to see better with your eyes today, how close this is happening, just prepare your heart and soul to be braver than Peter and not deny Christ in the moment your life might be in jeopardy for Him and what you believe. Apostle Pauls says to live is Christ to die is gain.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- “School does not make people, it is learning that makes people great, that is why you see first class students fail and poor. The world is not ruled by those who went to school, it is ruled by those who learn everyday.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- “I live to inspire, not start the fire.” ― Jonathan Anthony Burkett
- “I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
- “I’d like to die listening to a piece of music. I imagine this as so easy, so natural, but naturally it’s quite impossible. Notes stab too softly. The wounds they leave behind may smart, but they don’t fester. Melancholy and pain trickle out instead of blood. When the notes cease, all is peaceful within me again.” ― Robert Walser, Masquerade and Other Stories
- “All is as if the world did cease to exist. The city’s monuments go unseen, its past unheard, and its culture slowly fading in the dismal sea.” ― Nathan Reese Maher
- “Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.” ― Frank Zappa
- “That’s the beautiful thing about innocence; even monsters have a pocketful of childhood memories with which to seek comfort with.” ― Dave Matthes, Sleepeth Not, the Bastard
- “What is the difference between Passion and Dreams?Passion is what you have and Dreams will lead you to where you want to be!” ― Somya Kedia
- Music should be your escape. Missy Elliott
- “Life is like playing a guitar and meditation is like music. Small session of rehearsals daily won’t show much but would make you ROCK in the long run.” ― Vikrmn, Guru with Guitar
- “Well in case you failed to notice,In case you failed to see,This is my heart bleeding before you,This is me down on my kneesThese foolish games are tearing me apartYour thoughtless words are breaking my heartYou’re breaking my heart” ― Jewel Kilcher, Pieces of You
- “If music be the food of love, play on.” ― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
- The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable. W.H. Auden
- “Can you squeeze me into an empty page of your diary and psychologically save me?” ― Morrissey
- “Music does not need language of words for it has movements of dance to do its translation.” ― Shah Asad Rizvi
- “Edward genially enough did not disagree with what I said, but he didn’t seem to admit my point, either. I wanted to press him harder so I veered close enough to the ad hominem to point out that his life—the life of the mind, the life of the book collector and music lover and indeed of the gallery-goer, appreciator of the feminine and occasional boulevardier—would become simply unlivable and unthinkable in an Islamic republic. Again, he could accede politely to my point but carry on somehow as if nothing had been conceded. I came slowly to realize that with Edward, too, I was keeping two sets of books. We agreed on things like the first Palestinian intifadah, another event that took the Western press completely off guard, and we collaborated on a book of essays that asserted and defended Palestinian rights. This was in the now hard-to-remember time when all official recognition was withheld from the PLO. Together we debated Professor Bernard Lewis and Leon Wieseltier at a once-celebrated conference of the Middle East Studies Association in Cambridge in 1986, tossing and goring them somewhat in a duel over academic ‘objectivity’ in the wider discipline. But even then I was indistinctly aware that Edward didn’t feel himself quite at liberty to say certain things, while at the same time feeling rather too much obliged to say certain other things. A low point was an almost uncritical profile of Yasser Arafat that he contributed to Interview magazine in the late 1980s.” ― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
- “Keep music and art alive in our schools because the greatness of a country is not measured by wars that are won, by territory annexed or even the size of a deficit. It is measured by the beauty of the art work by talented hands, the sounds of the music created from the heart and by the wonder of the eyes and ears beholding them in joy. Art and music are the windows of the soul of any country. The greater the art created, the greater the country.” ― Clarrissa Lee Moon
- “You cannot occupy a proper place on earth without wisdom. It is the principal thing you must have.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- “If want to become a person with vision, get back and reconnect to your source.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- “I was content to shape the quiet into the structures I wanted.” ― S. Jae-Jones, Wintersong
- Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music. George Eliot
- We’ve already invented a time machine. It’s called music. Brian Norgard
- “With his Don Juan Mozart enters the little immortal circle of those whose names, whose works, time will not forget, because eternity remembers them. And though it is a matter of indifference, when one has found entrance there, whether one stands highest or lowest, because in a certain sense all stand equally high, since all stand infinitely high, and though it is childish to dispute over the first and the last place here, as it is when children quarrel about the order assigned to them in the church at confirmation, I am still too much of a child, or rather I am like a young girl in love with Mozart, and I must have him in first place, cost what it may. And I will appeal to the parish clerk and to the priest and to the dean and to the bishop and to the whole consistory, and I will implore and adjure them to hear my prayer, and I will invoke the whole congregation on this matter, and if they refuse to hear me, if they refuse to grant my childish wish, I excommunicate myself, and renounce all fellowship with their modes of thought; and I will form a sect which not only gives Mozart first place, but which absolutely refuses to recognize any artist other than Mozart; and I shall beg Mozart to forgive me, because his music did not inspire me to great deeds, but turned me into a fool, who lost through him the little reason I had, and spent most of my time in quiet sadness humming what I do not understand, haunting like a specter day and night what I am not permitted to enter. Immortal Mozart! Thou, to whom I owe everything; to whom I owe the loss of my reason, the wonder that caused my soul to tremble, the fear that gripped my inmost being; thou, to whom I owe it that I did not pass through life without having been stirred by something. Thou, to whom I offer thanks that I did not die without having loved, even though my love became unhappy. Is it strange then that I should be more concerned for Mozart’s glorification than for the happiest moment of my life, more jealous for his immortality than for my own existence? Aye, if he were taken away, if his name were erased from the memory of men, then would the last pillar be overthrown, which for me has kept everything from being hurled together into boundless chaos, into fearful nothingness.” ― Kierkegaard
- “Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.” ― Hans Christian Andersen
- “Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues.” ― Lady Gaga
- Music is the emotional life of most people. Leonard Cohen
- “The perfect orchestration of the symphony of life is one of the Creator’s greatest and most beautiful miracles.” ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
- Music is feeling. You can try to verbalize it. It really just hits you or it doesn’t. Gene Simmons
- “The truth is, anyone who puts so much of herself and her life into art as you do must naturally fear any failure in that art as a potential threat to your life. And so you protect your art more than you protect your health or the common forms of happiness the rest of us have. And you probably have this in common with every artist you admire.” ― Arthur Phillips, The Song Is You