Words of Wisdom

“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.”—Sergei Rachmaninov

“You’d like to be able to go to work and have everything be smooth, but there’s some weird artistic gene in some of us. It can feel like a curse, because it makes you push yourself to make things better and not allow them to be easy. That’s how you get the good stuff.”—Eddie Vedder

“In writing songs I’ve learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie.”—Bob Dylan

“Every artist was first an amateur.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When there is a great art, there is always heaven.”
—Surendra Shrestha

“Ideally, each piece of art’s its own unique object, and its evaluation’s always present-tense.”—David Foster Wallace

“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—’tis the difference the lightning-bug and the lightning.”—Mark Twain

“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”—Charles Bukowski

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
—Herman Melville

“There’s nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.”
—Mickey Hart