"I think for an artist what is most important is to touch as many hearts as possible."

“He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.”

“I think any song should sound good just played on a solitary instrument with the vocal. If you have those basics you have all you need. The production then just polishes that idea into the finished thing.”

“A Boy Should Know How to Tie a Tie and Other Lessons for Succeeding in Life.”

“But where, after all, would be the poetry of the sea were there no wild waves?”

Source : Joshua Slocum, Applewood Books (CRT) (2006). “Sailing Alone Around the World”, p.193, Applewood Books

“That’s where proper stories begin, don’t they, when the handsome stranger arrives and everything goes wrong?”

“Keep your dream in front of you. Never let it go regardless of how farfetched it might seem.”

“When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, the music of my own specialty, because folk music is to me more limited than classical music.”

“A house without love ain't a home.”