Some Quotes

Some show it through their toil. Some breathe it into music, Some mold it into art, Some shape it into bread loaves… Some hold it in their hearts.

I can remember sitting up in guitarist Chris Walla’s bedroom and for the first time in my life having this realization like, “Maybe I can do this. Maybe I can make music that in some capacity people will enjoy and come see me play.”

I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn’t get–and never would get.

The path that was entered upon only one hundred and fifty years ago … How young she is! It will be centuries before she will adopt that maturity of custom – the clothing of the grave – that some people believe she is already fitted for.

I don’t want to be flaky. I don’t want to be some temperamental, hard-to-work-with musician.

So many dancers rely on some sort of magic happening on the stage. They never, for various reasons, work full out in rehearsal. That’s very uncreative. They don’t discover the kinds of things that add up to a remarkable performance.

Today, free agency takes away a lot of your heroes, they go somewhere else. Some of them don’t but a lot of them do-take the higher offer to go somewhere else. And, it turns the fans off because they get attached to the players.

Some of the happiest moments of my life involve something that happened with one of my teams.

An artist should… bring into the world some vision. Dancers should ask, “What is their work in the service of?”

You know, you don’t get to survive that long without making some compromises.