P.D.Q. Bach Quotes

Sometimes when you say goodbye, that's the right thing to do in a relationship.

You wait a lifetime to meet someone who understands you, accepts you as you are. At the end, you find that someone, all along, has been you.

Humans have a soul which is their real higher self; a Divine, Mighty, Being.

That's why it's called Sebastian Bach. I mean, it's a permanent band, pretty much, but if I jam with other people, it just makes a better album, I think.

The only enlightened masters I know are the people that I see every day and the people that I've seen through my life who have had the understanding, at some level, that we're here to express love.

The space for what you want is already filled with what you settled for instead.

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.

Learning is finding out what you already know.

Life tells you nothing, it shows you everything.

That which most concerns and worries you - your survival - is the only certainty you have.

Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them.

Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!

The man who flies an airplane ... must believe in the unseen.

One challenge of our adventure on earth is to rise above dead systems...wars, nations, destructions...to refuse to be a part of them, and express the highest selves we know how to be.

Sense of family is enormously important to me. In the larger sense, we're all of us family; we're all of us soulmates.

On one of those rare occasions when Bach appraised his own life's work, he remarked: I worked hard.

What is music for? It's to make you feel good.

We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.

I don't understand the mentality of a rock fan, being obsessed with two or three songs from 25 years ago. I'm not that kind of a fan.

Well, you know, if you do 200 shows a year, they're not all going to be like Castle Donnington.

Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we'll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end.

We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.

Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are.

Sometimes it seems as though each new step towards AI, rather than producing something which everyone agrees is real intelligence, merely reveals what real intelligence is not.

Financial education needs to become a part of our national curriculum and scoring systems so that it's not just the rich kids that learn about money.. it's all of us.

It's weird, like, my life has always imitated art, and my art has always imitated life.

Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance.

I got the whole band set up in the basement and we are jamming.

That’s why love stories don’t have endings! They don’t have endings because love doesn’t end.

The only thing that shatters dreams is compromise.

Hell is a place, a time, a consciousness, in which there is no love.

What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

I was a microscopic life-form, infinitely large, stumbled backstage of its playhouse, caught a nanosecond glance of its own reality and nearly vaporized in shock.

Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.

Everybody is given a Dream... you may have to work for it however.

Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you.

Kids love rabbits... they just like them.

Perspective - Use It or Lose It.

You've given up your whole life to be the person you are now. Is it worth it?

You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self.

Reality lies far beyond space and time, and I need to know why.

Every step in every proud life is a run from safety to the dark, and the only thing to trust is what we think is true.

There's so much to learn! And just when we think, "I've got it. I really understand what's going on," we're shown a whole new stage set on which to play.

Judge not by the form of the messenger, but the form of the message.

The first prerequisite of an advanced being is a sense of humor.

Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.

Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.

I think our learning lies along the path of whatever it is we love.

There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years.