R.X. Bird Quotes
Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.
I've always felt that dark lyrics with dark music is pretty useless. Maybe that's a strong statement - not useless, but for me, it's just boring.
The anti-aging advert that I would like to see is a baby covered in cream saying, 'Aah, I've used too much'
The earth almost looks like it's packed down and dense from so many feet treading over it.
I was keenly aware that I had a unique opportunity, a front row seat, on an unfolding story and nobody else was going to see it from quite the vantage point that I saw it.
I have learned something about the job of being the President's wife. She is not chosen by anyone except her husband and she really has no obligations except to him.
The courts are an easy scapegoat because at a time when everything has to boiled down to easy slogans, we speak in subtleties.
Going to college and living with someone of another race gave me a different view of what people have to go through.
To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision.
If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.
A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way.
When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want.
This thing I am feeling, I’m almost certain, is the closest I’ll ever come to standing somewhere in between truth and reconciliation.
Even the juncture in history and the zeitgeist we live in is something we choose, setting the scene for the spiritual fodder we need to grow and achieve deeper elevation of our souls.
I closed my eyes and tried to sleep. But it was not until much later that I was able to get any real sleep. In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment.
While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct my own identity freely and reject labels imposed on me.
For some, excavating the past isn’t an adventure, it’s more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an open wound.
Lately, Mami’s eyes have been so dark, I don’t like looking into them because I’m afraid I’ll fall in.
Because he says he can't stand you and you act like you can't stand him, and whenever a man and a woman behave like that toward each other, it usually means something's going on.
When you hand good people possibility, they do great things.
I guess it all depends on whom you ask and when you ask. Race, I've learned, is in the eye of the beholder.
The things that come to us easily, our propensities, are carried on a deep subconscious level into our next life. There are no coincidences.
Paradise is a state of being, more than just the name of a suburb or a home.
There is no teacher equal to mother and there's nothing more contagious than the dignity of a father.
This is what I know about my parents. They spent the next several years trying to forget each other, and me.
If you make the opportunity. you'll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.
There's no such thing as a superhero, but together we can world in a new direction.
Imagine having a mother who worries that you read too much. The question is, what is it that's supposed to happen to people who read too much? How can you tell when someone's crossed the line.
Shakespeare had it right all along: Love will kill you in the end.
We aren’t encouraged to think for ourselves and ask questions. We are expected to accept what they teach us as infallible truths.
The hospital room was as cold as dead skin, the hallway crowded with lost souls and reeking of illness.
Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.
I also don't believe that "everything happens for a reason," which is in a similar category of world-views.
The problem is, when you're working with orchestras, you only get the orchestra for about two hours before the performance to pull it all together, and that doesn't sound like a real collaboration.
I still kind of believe this absurd line that if you have to write it down, it's not worth remembering.
I create little challenges for myself, like, 'Okay, whatever you do in this song, you've got to somehow work in Greek Cypriots,' or something like that.
What you see with your eyes when you're making music is going to have a profound effect on what you hear.
Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin.
There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and over again.
