P.D.Q. Bach Quotes

Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life forms, and they call you crazy.

Disease is in essence the result of conflict between Soul and Mind, and will never be eradicated except by spiritual and mental effort.

God's gift to his sorrowing creatures is a joy worthy of their destiny.

The most stupendous miracle in all music.

Healing with the clean, pure, beautiful agents of nature is surely the one method of all which appeals to most of us

I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.

Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.

Sooner I'd try to change history than turn political, than try convincing others to write letters or to vote or to march or to do something they didn't already feel like doing.

Treat the cause not the effect.

Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book.

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.

Metal is still the biggest music now in America.

I was made to work. If you are equally industrious, you will be equally successful.

I don't know what it is about the french language, it seems to be scared of coming out of the mouth so it comes out the nose instead.

Fake feeling good.... You're going to have to learn to fake cheerfulness. Believe it or not, eventually that effort will pay off: you'll actually start feeling happier.

Every single person has a life to live, a work to do, a glorious personality, a wonderful individuality.

The only true law is that which leads to freedom.

A Composition on the Piano

I have always kept one end in view, namely ... to conduct a well-regulated church music to the honour of God.

We [Americans] are game-playing, fun-loving creatures; we are the otters of the universe.

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.

How can a deer tell when a leaf falls silent in the forest? She hears it breathing differently.

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.

If you want to meet someone who can fix any situation you don't like, who can bring you happiness in spite of what other people say or believe, look in a mirror, then say this magic word: 'Hello.'

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.

All we have to do is preserve our personality, to live our own life, be captain of our own ship, and all will be well.

Bring me coffee before I turn into a goat!

You can achieve a goal; you never really achieve your purpose, because your purpose is ongoing. It never stops.

And may we ever have gratitude in hearts that the great Creator in all His glory has placed the herbs in the field for our healing.

You're never given a dream without the power to make it true.

I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.

Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again

The simplest things are often the truest.

The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness , It's Intimacy.

If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.

All we see of someone at any moment is a snapshot of their life, there in riches or poverty, in joy or despair. Snapshots don't show the million decisions that led to that moment.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks.

The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly.

Suffering is a corrective to point out a lesson which by other means we have failed to grasp, and never can it be eradicated until that lesson is learnt.

When we come to the last moment of this lifetime and we look back across it, the only thing that's going to matter is 'What is the quality of our love?'

My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school.

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.

The real primary diseases of man are such defects as pride, cruelty, hate, self- love, ignorance, instability and greed; and each of these, if considered, will be found to be adverse to Unity.

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift.

Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.

Look in the mirror and one thing is sure: what we see is not who we are.