"Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music."

-- Herbie Hancock

#Inspirational Quotes #Music Quotes #Creativity Quotes

“And now, dear sister, I must leave this house or the retreating army will make me a prisoner in it by filling up the road I am directed to take.”

Source : Dolley Madison (1886). “Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison: Wife of James Madison, President of the United States”, Boston ; New York, Houghton, Mifflin
“Never underestimate a girlâ€™s love for her favorite band. Never think even for a minute, that she wonâ€™t defend them to her death.”
“I've discovered most Christians don't know what to do with difficult situations because they have bought into the lie that God owes us (for our good behaviour). The reality of life is that if you live long enough you are going to bleed, cry and hurt. AND God is still God IN that.”
“It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch-antirevolutionaries.”
“If you find yourself focusing on negative scenarios, ask us angels to transmute this fearful energy into love.”
“It's always weird to shoot when you're really basically not wearing anything.”
“My imagination? No, I don't think it's VIVID at all. On the contrary, it's not nearly potent enough. My poor imaginative faculties have always needed...extentions. That's why I'm here with you. You're smiling again, or rather you're SMIRKING. Funny word, smirk. Rather like an extraterrestrial surname. Simon Smirk. How do you think that sounds?”
“You can go on like this for a very long time, and no one will notice. You keep thinking you're going to hit some sort of bottom, but I'm here to tell you: There is no bottom.”

Source : Dan Chaon (2009). “Among the Missing”, p.16, Ballantine Books

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