Quotes About Balance

For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.

There's a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that's a bit blurred in my mind.

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?

Music is to the mind as air is to the body.

Rests always sound well.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.

I'm very moved by Renaissance music, but I still love to play hard rock - though only if it's sophisticated and has some thought behind it.

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Music is my life - acting's just a hobby.

I actually prefer soothing music - and maybe that's the skater in me.

I like an element of chaos in music. That feeling is the best thing ever, as long as you don't have too much of it.

A stone is frozen music

Would you destroy Something perfect in order to make it beautiful?

Writing is the same as music. It's in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don't play is as important as what you do say.

I am not one of those artists who is cemented in one way. I am able to, you know, make the happy, jovial, lighthearted music too. We need that in life too. So it's like that to me.

But only art and music have the power to bring peace.

.. the whole idea is that if you turn your amp up to 10, you should still be able to play at a whisper - you've got to learn to control your hands

There is not one thing that music does which does not say something about how a person should organize himself, too.

All relationships are tough. Just like with music, sometimes you have harmony and other times you have cacophony.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

The trio is the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit.

Too much pleasure disagrees with us. Too many concords are annoying in music; too many benefits irritate us; we wish to have the wherewithal to overpay our debts.

Dancing is moving to the music without stepping on anyone's toes, pretty much the same as life.