"Theres nothing but spirit in music. Thats all it is. Yeah, theres a lot of intellectual elements to it, but no matter how you approach it, its all spirit."

-- Amos Lee

#Intellectual Quotes #Matter Quotes #Elements Quotes

“Before all else, the Gospel invites us to respond to the God of love who saves us, to see God in others and to go forth from ourselves to seek the good of others.”
“I miss him like one might miss a scar, or wooden leg, something disfiguring but characteristic.”
“A good judge should never boast of his power, because he can do nothing but what he can do justly: he is not the master, but the minister of the law. Authority without virtue is a very dangerous state.”
“There are some things that, if you say them out loud, will hurt the other person's feelings. I tend to say them anyway. It's better to be honest.”
“An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.”
“(He) mourned mankind, and the blindness of men, who thought that the Kosmos had rules and limits that would shelter them from their own freedom. There were no shelters. There were no final purposes. Futility, and freedom, were Absolute”
“On Saturday night, I would see men ***** after half-naked girls dancing at the carnival, and on Sunday morning when I was playing organ for tent-show evangelists at the other end of the carnival lot, I would see these same men sitting in the pews with their wives and children, asking God to forgive them and purge them of carnal desires. And the next Saturday they'd be back at the carnival or some other place of indulgence. I knew then that the Christian church thrives on hypocrisy, and that man's carnal nature will out no matter how much it is purged or scoured by any white-light religion.”
“The general trend in the last 4,000 years is that carbon dioxide and temperature have been moving against each other.”

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