Quotes About Clarity

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.'

Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.

Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.

Writing music always happened for me in periods when I wasn't under the influence of mind-altering substance.

I don't have any dreams or aspirations or goals I want to meet music-wise, so there's nothing to keep me from being level-headed.

I am what I am Are you what you are or What?

Modern church music is so constructed that the congregation cannot hear one distinct word.

Superior music is purity itself; it clears the air.

When the mind is full of worldly desires, it is their very nature to confuse the mind. Withdraw the mind from outer things and turn it inwards.

Privilege blinds, because it's in its nature to blind. Don't let it blind you too often. Sometimes you will need to push it aside in order to see clearly.

Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.

Nature never writes a blind hand.

Nature does not deceive or conceal, but reveals.

The source of all light is in the eye.

The origin of the conflict, frustration, and anxiety we experience does not lie in the nature of the world itself but in our distorted conceptions of the world.

I like to be alone. I am focused on what I am doing. I feel the nature and I feel my body. It's so simple.

No matter how confused or deluded we may be at the moment, the underlying and essential nature of our being is clear and pure

I'm a minimalist. I see things in simple ways...It's human nature to define complexity as better. Well, it's not.

Whenever I have a serious problem or some assignment of a creative nature...I always receive more assistance in the early morning hours than at any other time of the day.

To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

Fresh air is as good for the mind as for the body. Nature always seems trying to talk to us as if she had some great secret to tell. And so she has.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

I am well again, I came to life in the cool winds and crystal waters of the mountains.

Hugo?' 'Millicent?' 'Is that you?' 'Yes. Is that you?' 'Yes.' Anything in the nature of misunderstanding was cleared away. It was both of them.