Quotes About Present

Jazz is about being in the moment.

Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.

The profession of music is lacking in horse sense, not only because the commonplace variety of horse is absent from its operations, but because parts of the horse are noticeably present.

The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.

I've always loved playing solo. I guess in a way I just feel blessed to be able to make music. My favorite thing is usually whatever I'm doing right there and then.

Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.

There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them.

When you have abandoned all past and future, it is as if you have come alive. You are here, mindful...the nature of all types of consciousness reveals itself.

I do NOT accept the ephemeral nature of this moment. I'm going to extend it FOREVER! Or at least I'm going to try.

And life is beautiful, love is beautiful, nature and music are beautiful. Everything we experience is a gift, a present we should cherish and pass on to those we love.

The nature of the video camera really makes you focus on the present. Since I have always been a diarist filmmaker, not one who stages scenes with actors, it has always been about the present moment.

The point is that our true nature is not some ideal that we have to live up to. It's who we are right now, and that's what we can make friends with and celebrate.

Tomorrow-drop that word from your vocabulary! Tomorrow does not exist, it cannot exist: it is not in the nature of things. Only this day exists.

The past assumes the nature of the present.

I just play the game. I hit a shot and wait for the next guy to hit his. I don't think between shots-that's my nature.

One who lives in accordance with nature does not go against the way of things but moves in harmony with the present moment.

I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get at times, messages across or bring issues to the table or as we so often say, shed light into the dark crevices of human nature

You are making an inopportune rejection of what Nature has given you today, if all your mind is set on what men will say of you tomorrow.

I closed my eyes and turned my face into the cold wind. When I felt it swept along my skin there was no past. No future. Just now.

Its just human nature. People forget past and only care about their present and don't think what will happen in future...

I suspect each of us uses the past to prop up the bruised present. It's a clumsy try for the comfort of normality.

Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.

Impatience makes us get ahead of ourselves, reaching out for something in the future and not really being content with where we are, here and now.