Quotes About Balance

I love making music and I'm falling in love with making records, so it's like having two girlfriends. But I can handle it.

I think it's important to do things that you're interested in. I think it's important to have other outlets away from the music industry.

I call 'Community' the best day job in the world, because between takes, I get to write music. I get to write sketches. I get to write movies. It's the best job ever.

If you date a musician, you're never, ever really gonna be first either. You're gonna be right behind the music and maybe right close.

The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.

I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music.

And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books.

I'm not the kind of person who's always out at the club if I don't have to be. I like chilling. I think that comes across in my music.

When you're working with vibes the music comes right in. The blend is perfect. So to me it was never a mismatch. It was actually pretty complementary.

Music is the harmonization of opposites; the conciliation of warring elements

Music is my wife and acting is my girlfriend.

If anyone can figure out how to balance my celebrity and my dual careers in music and film, it's me. I don't feel frightened; I feel challenged.

Music makes a quiet mind.

I still have a lot of passion for music, but I would quit it tomorrow if that's what my family needed me to do. I'm sure I'd miss it, but it's a job.

The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it is down the music interrupts the audience.

I don't know if it's a sign of all the chaos that is happening out there or not, but I've lately craved the structure and order of classical music, the balance and symmetry.

You have to watch all sides of your advancement, you have to make sure people's bodies and minds are healthy and their morale is cool before you can really go out and play great music.

You either have a great social life and shitty taste in music, or a fantastic taste in music with barely any social life.

Fusion has been my nemesis.

I would have hated to been locked into music for the last 20 years and not been able to have a family.

True perfection has to be imperfect. I know that sounds foolish, but it's true.

In terms of creating new music, I'm willing to even branch out and take a slight gamble, but I'm not going all the way far left. I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel.

I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.

Even when I take the path to go be a CEO for a month, or a CEO for a day- music is still there. It's an extremely important part of what I am.