H. L. Mencken Quotes
The feelings that Beethoven put into his music were the feelings of a god. There was something olympian in his snarls and rages, and there was a touch of hellfire in his mirth.
Quotes to Explore
-
I wake up late, say 10 or 11, because we've usually been out and about town until 2 or 3 A.M. listening to music at the jazz clubs or hitting the jazz clubs post-theater.
-
I always try to see the good in everything, and that gives me strength. Even when I lost in the London Olympics quarterfinals, I said to myself, 'Don't lose heart, God has his own plans.' Actually, life just goes on; you have to accept whatever challenge you face and become stronger.
-
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
-
I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.
-
The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
-
I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.
-
With Ghost Tunes, you just try to do what's right. And what's right is whatever the copyright owner wants to do with their music, they do it.
-
One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
-
Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
-
It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
-
Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.
-
Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.
-
Sometimes I pray when I really feel like I need God to help me with something, and sometimes we just have conversations. We just kick it.
-
Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.
-
If one marries out of necessity, he will have to reincarnate to reach the point where he wants to live only for God.
-
Attributing to anything or anyone more good than God has attributed to them is not a positive move, nor does it mean that you have done them any good. A single grain of truth is preferable to a bumper harvest of false imaginings.
-
I don't think I make dance music. It's not even 4/4. And it's slow.
-
If it turns out to be a hit, well, good luck dealing with fame. And if it's not a hit and you can still survive and make music you believe in, well, then you're truly blessed. I think that's where we are now.
-
The reason I always loved 'The Omen' so much, and what has always been scariest to me, is anything to do with God. Anything to do with God is quite frightening because fear is something that's very much expressed in a church environment, and I grew up in one. And the fear of God was very much instilled me at a very young age.
-
I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully.
-
We spent a lot of time on that record with the sound and recorded it on the Paramount sound stage which is this huge room where the sound is reflected but the reflection is so late and comes from so far away that it doesn't blur the music but gives you a room nonetheless.
-
I became convinced that the whole essence of the computer revolution is interactivity. That was very early in my career. At the time I did that it was heresy.
-
One trader's move in the market can be interpreted by another trader as relevant additional information due to the uncertainty he faces.
-
The feelings that Beethoven put into his music were the feelings of a god. There was something olympian in his snarls and rages, and there was a touch of hellfire in his mirth.
