Quotes About Perspective

I love interpreting other people's music.

I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.

I don't think events in your life affect your music.

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 love music, but more for the context within the music than a certain sound.

Music is funny. I shouldn't even ever talk about music, because you can have all the ideas in your head, and it never goes exactly the way that you think it's gonna go.

I know that I loved music before I loved movies, simply because I didn't see movies as a kid.

I'm sometimes critical about other artists who come out with something different until maybe I hear the music. If the music is there, then they did their job, and I'll enjoy the CD.

The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.

When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.

To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

When we destroy something crated by man we call it vandalism but when we destroy something by nature we call it progress.

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.

Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

At some point in life, the world's beauty becomes enough.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

How sweet the morning air is! ...How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!

The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.

It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.