Quotes About Reflection

The modern listening experience is one of solitude, where someone just listens to music on their laptop.

The blues is a hopeful music. It helps you process something rather than avoid it. It's like mourning, in essence.

The music I play and write is all reflective of myself and the experiences in my life. I feel like my whole journey is just collecting stories and songs along the way.

I gave up language for a while, and I started painting.And then I only listened to Miles Davis and other instrumental music to see how it felt to be without words.

It's wonderful to look back and think you were part of a force that shaped modern music and influenced the public in so many ways. However, that's all in the past.

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

The Best Music you can ever hear in your Life is Silence -- silence of yourself, silence of your loved ones

And the worst part is before it gets any better we're heading for a cliff. And in the free fall I will realize I'm better off when I hit the bottom

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.

Still, to this day I go back and listen to music that inspires me to write now

If pop music reflects the culture, this will surely go down as the era in which people rose up and realized it was fun to dance at parties.

There is more to life than increasing its speed. Gandhi gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? Richard Bach Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.

Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child.

I just want my music to measure up to. Part of it's just thinking about my place in history and how this music is going to be perceived, if it's listened to 30, 40 years from now.

I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me

The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.

The highest goal of music is to connect one's soul to their Divine Nature, not entertainment

Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

True joy of nature is when every drop of water shines like a pearl.

Nature educates us into beauty and inwardness and is a source of the most noble pleasure.

As fragrance abides in the flower As reflection is within the mirror, So does your Lord abide within you, Why search for him without?

I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news