C.A.Keith Quotes

I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid.

I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.

Silence is the potential from which music can arise.

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.

Truth is that the best ideas are often psychotic, obscene and unoriginal.

There's no original evil left in the world. Everyone's just recycling pain. (257)

My whole thing has always been as long as everybody else is going through it, I can go through it as well.

You need a bad operation. Gimme the scissors, hammer, flame.

People blush when one of their core truths is revealed.

Where if you're in a universe where you have to accept ideas, you'll never know if your partner wanted the garbage you're handing them. They have to take it.

Understand: the task of an activist is not to negotiate systems of power with as much personal integrity as possible--it's to dismantle those systems.

The roots of any evil deed can be traced to the perpetrator's refusal to experience pain.

Lucy took care of me on the set, and made sure that none of the crew cussed around me. She also had birthday parties for me and made sure that they were well attended.

There's nothing you can do about what social media is now or the internet. You just try to find other avenues to make yourself seen and heard.

I'm as strong, strong as I can be, but ooh ooh ooh, baby you leave me weak.

Treat customer support as a product.

You really need to spend a lot of your time focussing people.

Today on social media, you can release anything and everybody will hear it. Back in the day, that was your only outlet, getting a deal with a record company and them distributing it around the world.

My process is always the same. Maybe that's why I stay so consistent, it really doesn't change. I only know one way to record and do things.

I am discovering that in trying to find God's will and the shape of the Christian life I have begun an adventure so great that its total completion will always be ahead.

A PhD in Mathematics is three years of guessing it wrong, plus one week of getting it right and writing a dissertation.

I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain.

You can't accuse me of anything I haven't already confessed to.

When we are truly passionate about something we are contagious.

One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience

Get off my back, save a heart attack, ain't nobody humpin' around.

I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.

When you help someone through a health issue, positively impact someone's personal wealth, or take a sincere interest in their children, you engender life-bonding loyalty.

Hear the bells ringing they're singing "Christ is risen from the dead!" The angel up on the tombstone said, He is risen just as he said!

Christ is risen from the dead!

One side sticks to the facts, and the other side is close to playing with its poop.

Raw is a good place for an artist. It's where the truth comes out.

I'm not a huge fan of covers in general, but collaborations always make them more fun - they're sort of neutral territory.

Cult recruiting methods based on dosing victims with the brain chemicals released during capture bonding would make cults even more of a problem than they are now.

It's a privilege just to wake up to a new day.

After I win the job and even in the course of seeking it, we're going to be building bridges. And we're going to be meeting people and addressing the concerns that they have.

Its called a playground, but its nearer to a battlefield. It can be brutal

We want to be making clear that if [Donald Trump] tries to deliver on his word, that we will be there to say no.

It is better to be un-informed than ill-informed.

I remember when I was a little boy my father didn't love me; he couldn't. He loved my older brother but he couldn't love me somehow, at least not in a way I could understand it.

A forest is mystery but the desert is truth. Life pared to the bone.

I can't go out on stage and have glow sticks waved at me! That's not representative of anything!

I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.

I've got nothing against daylight. I don't live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.

Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.

A sucker punch came flying from somewhere in the back. As soon as we can see clearly with our big black eye, we're going to light up your world like the fourth of July.

Retire? I can't spell the word. I'd play in a wheelchair.

You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.

R&B is never going to be dead, it's just going to evolve.