Debellis Music Quotes & Sayings

I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run to a book as a child to its mother. — Virginia Woolf

I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal ... my first instinct was to write. — Gregory David Roberts

All of this while I left lifted by a strange new medium, a strange element
I now tell you that I was newly buoyant in a brighter life. In the midst of a hymn, God had disappeared. It was like waking from a nightmare in which I'd been paralyzed. Like discovering that gravity itself had been only a bad dream. — Denis Johnson

Happiness is native to the human mind and its physical machine. We think better, perform better, feel better, and are healthier when we are happy. — Maxwell Maltz

Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people by making them laugh. Essentially, I was just trying to make them like me. But after a while it became part of my identity. — Tina Fey

The world seems dark and ugly sometimes. But there are still good things in it. And good people. — Jim Butcher

All you need to do is turn on the news, and in five minutes, you're depressed with the state of the world. Choosing joy is a completely active choice. It doesn't just happen. You can't just say, 'I want to be happy.' You have to take action. — Billy Porter

When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is. — Walter Darby Bannard

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it. — Leo Tolstoy

Had a gay bull I had to sell last year. That was a damn nuisance. Gay son? That don't cost me nothing. — Abigail Roux

Why don't you pair'em up in threes? — Yogi Berra

The average sparrow is something of a bore and the trouble is that all sparrows are average. — Will Cuppy