"Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony."

#Harmony Quotes #Results Quotes #Rhythm Quotes

“Still, to this day I go back and listen to music that inspires me to write now”
“i cannot be called upon to know a negative or to prove a negative. if there is a god and you prove it, that's fine. but you don't tell me you can't know that there isn't. i would say yes i know there isn't because i have been given no evidence.”
“Always listen to your inner voice.”
“What an artist does, is fail. Any reading of the literature... (I mean the literature of artistic creation), however summary, will persuade you instantly that the paradigmatic artistic experience is that of failure. The actualization fails to meet, equal, the intuition. There is something "out there" which cannot be brought "here". This is standard. I don't mean bad artists, I mean good artists. There is no such thing as a "successful artist" (except, of course, in worldly terms).”

Source : "The Sandman". "Sadness". Book by Donald Barthelme, 1972.
“Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.”
“All I want is to have my peace of mind”

Source : "Song: Peace of Mind (Boston)". April 1977.
“I worry about people who get born nowadays, because they get born into such tiny families--sometimes into no family at all. When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope Diamond. And that encourages you to talk too much.”
“If you look at the best-seller list, it is mostly thrillers. Very few books attempt to create an image of the life we live. I knew there were writers who wore tweed coats and lived in Connecticut and somehow made a living, and that's what I aimed to do. I've tried to write as well as I can with books that say something to any reader.”

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