Quotes About Transformation

There is a difficulty with only one person changing. People call that person a great saint or a great mystic or a great leader, and they say, 'Well, he's different from me - I could never do it.' What's wrong with most people is that they have this block - they feel they could never make a difference, and therefore, they never face the possibility, because it is too disturbing, too frightening.

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.

Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity.

Turn and face the strange changes.

Aging is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person you always should have been.

Change is the very fabric of our time.

'Design Star' was incredible, and I didn't think it could get any better, and then 'Color Splash' happened.

familiar process before they can acknowledge how comprehensive their problem is. First, they deny that there's something wrong with their life. Then they intensify their efforts to follow the old failing plan. Then they try to treat themselves with some new thrill: They have an affair, drink more, or start doing drugs. Only when all this fails do they admit that they need to change the way they think about life.

People in the valley have been broken open. They have been reminded that they are not just the parts of themselves that they put on display.

How do you teach a classroom of Sybils who are breaking apart and reforming right in front of you?

People who endure suffering are taken beneath the routine busyness of life and find they are not who they believed themselves to be.

Abilene had gone from boomtown to Bible Belt, from whorehouses to schoolmarms, without any of the intervening phases.

The people who are made larger by suffering go on to stage two small rebellions. First, they rebel against their ego ideal. .. down in the valley, they lose interest in their ego ideal

Bowie drew our attention to the fact that a person could play the part of a rock star before actually becoming one.

Music eats its young and gives birth to a new hybrid creature.

Music can get us through difficult patches in our lives by changing not only how we feel about ourselves, but also how we feel about everything outside ourselves.

You can't touch music—it exists only at the moment it is being apprehended—and yet it can profoundly alter how we view the world and our place in it.

Music can get us through difficult patches in our lives by changing not only how we feel about ourselves, but also how we feel about everything outside ourselves. It's powerful stuff.

Things fall apart, it's scientific.

While we may not awaken to a perfect, pristine world in our natural bodies, we can awaken to a "brand-new day" in our minds and hearts.

I knew they were mine because they became so in tiny steps across my soul.

As a father, I do everything my dad didn't do. My son Beau's birth changed my life.

How does the water of the brain turn into the wine of consciousness?

Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas which, given enough time, changes into people.