Quotes About Reflection

I'll read my books and I'll drink coffee and I'll listen to music, and I'll bolt the door.

I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things bigger than lifes daily routines... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient.

I tend to avoid writing music about initial reactions to situations, like frustration or anger. I'd rather wait till I go through the problem, and write about the learning that took place.

The music tends to be an expression of one's darker moments.

Music speaks to people at a level that is much more universal and can kind of trigger things in the listener in ways that other forms of communication can't.

Good music can act as a guide to good living.

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

My favorite piece [piece of music] is the one we hear all the time if we are quiet.

I use too much of my brain and need to let some of it rest.

Listen deeper than the music before you put it in the box.

Music mirrors where we should go, have gone and can go. Music is an abstraction.

Music is...a form of remembering, a return to the seasons of the heart long gone.

Music helps you find the truths you must bring into the rest of your life.

Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.

Music was our way of remembering our inner selves, our values.

music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.

There is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.

Art and music are the vehicle for the zeitgeist.

Life is not always good, which is why music exists.

We have always created - music, literature, art, dance. The art around us - or lack of it - may be a measure of how we're doing as individuals and as a civilization, so maybe we should be worried.

I see my life in terms of music.

Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime!

Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.

I can't tell my future, so I'm going to tell my past.