Raymond Chandler on Writing & Words…

” The faster I write the better my output. If I am going slow, I’m in trouble. It means I’m pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.”~Raymond Chandler

Walt Kelly, Creator of Pogo comic strip’s ‘Rule 62′

Sounds a lot like ‘Rule 62′ for us recovery folks (‘don’t take yourself so damn seriously’)….hmmh?

“Don’t take life so serious. It ain’t no-hows permanent.”~Walt Kelly

Ernest Hemingway on Prose

“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.”~Ernest Hemingway

Pablo Casals on Music

“Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.” ~Pablo Casals

The Immortal John Lennon on Music

“Music is everybody’s possession. Only publishers think that people own it.”~John Lennon

The Immortal Frank Zappa’s thought on love songs…

“There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.”~Frank Zappa

Leopold Stokowski on Music

“A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.” ~Leopold Stokowski

J.K. Rowling on Music

“Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!”
~J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, 1997

Author Pat Conroy on Music

“Without music, life is a journey through a desert.”~Pat Conroy

Buffy Sainte-Marie on Music

“Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel.”~Buffy Sainte-Marie