Joy Harjo Quotes
If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned.
Quotes to Explore
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When you first hear Mozart's music, your first impression is that it's very alive, but if you peel away the layers, you can hear sorrow and sadness behind it, and that's what I try to be: multi-layered.
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If the spectrum linking everyday depression to Major Depression sometimes hinders understanding of it, it also offers an opportunity for empathy. Because almost everyone, at some point, experiences feelings of sadness, of hopelessness, of emptiness, not to mention lethargy and irritability.
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My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.
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If you go to a movie and it's a great experience, the experience at the end of it is always like this sadness that it's over, that your time with these characters is finished. There's almost like an achy feeling that I have when I go to a movie that I love and it ends.
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I want to paint something that's gorgeous, something that's perfect. So that it's full of sadness.
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Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone... truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else.
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Politicians are, in general, receptive to those who make the most noise.
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Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.
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A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.
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Sleep is such a potent, liminal state, and I don't want to drag anything in there that doesn't need to be there.
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I got worries by the ton, getting cancer's only one. Over taxed and alimonied, tired of eating fried baloney.
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I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise.
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Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North.
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It’s a trick Ben taught me to help settle my Noise. You close yer eyes and as clearly and calmly as you can you tell yerself who you are, cuz that’s what gets lost in all that Noise.
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The noise is so loud that birds, waves, and people are silenced by the frantic roar of morons screaming and tearing back and forth, back and forth, devastating the peace of a quiet day at the beach and the joy of fellow boatmen on the water.
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Fame is drag. The paparazzi culture is more pervasive than it used to be. On the positive side, it’s nice not to have to worry about bills.
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The experience of losing a loved one impels us toward a deeper understanding of life. Everyone fears and is saddened by death. That is natural. But by struggling to overcome the pain and sadness that accompanies death, we become sharply aware of the dignity and preciousness of life and develop the compassion to share the sufferings of others as our own.
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A bomb makes more noise than a caress, but for each bomb that destroys, there are millions of caresses that nourish life.
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A Jazz man should be saying what he feels: humor, sadness, joy... all the things that humans have.
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We'd like to just write nothing but lyric poetry. The trouble is, the individual is going along intent on his own personal gratifications and love affairs and financial affairs and everything else. But loping alongside him is this fascist lout who keeps trying to take over. And if you keep ignoring him, he gets bigger and bigger, so every once in a while the free individual has to turn away from his private pursuits and give this fascist lout a few clouts, and beat him down to size.
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Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance.
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Whatever people do, they do for a reason and they think that it meets their needs....by their perception.
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If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned.
