C.A.Keith Quotes

Whatever you do, the only secret is to believe in it and satisfy yourself. Don't do it for anyone else.

I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.

Are you willing to stay right where you are and let the Lord do great things through you, though no one may seem to notice at all?

I'm not a prophet of doom, I'm a prophet of love. But love will bid a warning doom to the children who play on the freeway. We need to wake up.

Life is like an elevator. Up and down, just make sure you get off on the right floor.

This generation of Christians is responsible for this generation of souls on the earth!

I'd rather have people hate me with the knowledge that I tried to save them.

I would have met Jesus sooner if not for Christians who led double lives.

I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.

Children know something that most people have forgotten.

Thank you Lord, for being patient with me. For its so hard to see, when my eyes are on me.

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.

The only way art lives is through the experience of the observer. The reality of art begins with the eyes of the beholder, through imagination, invention and confrontation.

Good improvisers seem telepathic; everything looks pre-arranged, This is because they accept all offers made—which is something no ‘normal’ person would do.

Jesus rose from the grave and you, you can't even get out of bed.

Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.

I told people I was a drummer before I even had a set, I was a mental drummer.

Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.

In fact, I have never met anyone who didn't like Gargoyles.

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins.

High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment.

The improviser has to understand that his first skill lies in releasing his partner’s imagination.

Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children.

I'd like to pretend that I've never seen anything, never read anything, never heard anything... and then make something.

If you have a good idea, open your mouth and say something else.

When church is over and there's no one there to listen except the only One who matters, do you still have that same passionate joy in your spirit, just to be alone with the Living God?

If commercialization is putting my art on a shirt so that a kid who can't afford a $30,000 painting can buy one, then I'm all for it.

If you don't have a definite call to stay here, you are called to go.

As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president.

Imagination is as effortless as perception, unless we think it might be ‘wrong’, which is what our education encourages us to believe.

My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many people as I can for as long as I can.

You know, I'm pro-troops, but I'm not pro-war.

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

The best laughs are on the recognition of truth.

I love to see people laugh and I love it more if I can make them laugh.

The way to love someone is to lightly run your finger over that person's soul until you find a crack, and then gently pour your love into that crack.

Fox News is hated because they're elitists, and the worst winners television's ever seen.

None of us really grow up. All we ever do is learn how to behave in public.

Art is nothing if you don't reach every segment of the people.

I guess the painkillers wipe out your memory along with your ethics.

If you believe you're good already, you don't need to do extra stuff to impress us. Your best work comes when you're absorbed; because then your ego is away.

I'm still the best Keith Moon-style drummer in the world.

I've never tried to be controversial. The truth is controversial enough.

I say if you're going to take a chance on something, you just go full balls to the wall.

Leadership is ultimately about creating a way for people to contribute to making something extraordinary happen.

Democracies die behind closed doors. . . . When government begins closing doors, it selectively controls information rightfully belonging to the people. Selective information is misinformation.

He must not laugh at his own wheeze: a snuff box has no right to sneeze.

Democracies die behind closed doors.

Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.