J.B. Morton Quotes

In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.

Don't get mad except on purpose.

To understand what music has to be, you have to live for music. Who's ready to do that?

Be patient. Like storms, the challenges will pass. Know too, that like the sun, your true soul self is constantly radiating.

In the year of 1902, when I was about seventeen years old, I happened to invade one of the sections [in New Orleans] where the birth of Jazz originated from.

For years I said if I could only find a comfortable chair I would rival Mozart.

In spiritual matters we remain beginners.

Religion acts as a moral gardener, to weed out, or suppress, evil tendencies, which, like weeds and nettles, would shoot up spontaneously in the wonderful compost of the garden, if unwatched.

That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer.

His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story.

I think people believe that I give ant aura of someone who has both feet on the ground.

James Cameron has always been way ahead of the curve in terms of the use of technology in his movies.

At one point [Cardew] taught himself to play guitar simply in order to take part in the performance in a composition by Boulez, which is a little like saying he learned Danish to read Kiekegaard.

I want to give my compliments to Australia. Ever since your government paid a few million dollars for a Jackson Pollack painting, I figure that it must be a marvellous country

I'm grateful I've got my mind. I can take care of my own business.

I was once married to a woman who could eat anything and tell you what was in it: the most complicated recipes. Her memory of taste - now that's what I call memory!

The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful and the ennobling in man.

Being a good psychoanalyst has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up.

You can't save the world if you can't pay the rent.

It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.

Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.

To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.

You cannot make friends of your enemies by making enemies of your friends.

She felt like a fictional character who'd escaped the book in which her creator had carefully and kindly trapped her, taken a pair of scissors to her outline and leaped, free.

Thinking of nothing. Trying to think of nothing. Thinking of everything.

In politics, nothing moves unless it's pushed.

After all, Jews invented psychiatry to help other Jews become Gentiles.

Politics is of the heart as well as of the mind. Many people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

I think it talks about that there needs to be some proactive attack against drugs infiltrating our culture.

Political technology determines political success.

I never feel that my music is sparse or minimalist; the way fat people never really think they're fat. I certainly don't consider myself minimalist at all

I came into the industry at a time when there weren't a lot of choices to what you could do.

I think it talks about the fact that there are black people in the world who have tremendous amount of talents and have no channel through which they can those talents.

The best choices will always be the most loving.

For me it's the instrument. If I want to think of a flute and the state of the arts I hear a vibrato; I don't know what a flute is unless the person plays it for me

If there's no craft there, then once the looks go, there goes your career.

Actions have consequences.

Make the opponents' goal more expensive than it's worth.

No one has the Houdini school of composition.

It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver.

It is only too easy to compel a sensitive human being to feel guilty about anything.

What meditation does mean is a way for us to unlock and open the door to the kingdom of heaven. Jesus began his ministry by proclaiming that this holy kingdom was within us and among us.

What was great about the 50s is that for one brief moment - maybe, say, six weeks - nobody understood art.

While it costs us a lot to adopt children, it cost God the blood of His own Son.

I don't get the point in a lot of biopics, they're boring. You know what's gonna happen. You're just watching actors show off.

I'm not suspicious, I'm just careful.

I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That's when you most need God, and God cannot control what man does.

Sound doctrine is sound politics.

Effort is admirable. Achievement is valuable.

Don't fully trust anyone until he has stuck with a good cause which he saw was losing.