Meditations

In the time to come, when I will come across to intellectual or musical statements that strike me, I will put them here on this page. My apologies in advance for any inaccurate source.

Some of these quotes are for fun, others are much deeper. All of them can be applied to music even when that wasn’t their original intent, and they are inspiration for some meditation…

You must be the change you wish to see in the world

True Music, like all true Art, is an experience to be shared, not judged, for praise cannot make it better, as blame cannot make it worse

Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience

Drums should be as musically supportive of the compositions as the rest of the instruments. It’s a musical instrument, playing with other musical instruments

Do not fear mistakes. There are none

Great spirits always encounter violent opposition from mediocre minds

To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting