Ken Hensley Quotes

#1. If you like what Wall Street did for the housing market, you'll love what Wall Street is doing for commodities, Goldman's ability to influence any portion of the price for a key component of the industrial economy is simply unacceptable.

Carl Levin

#2. If your goal is transformation, then it's more important to teach them how to think than what to think.

Ken Hensley

#3. The band projects just took natural priority. I didn't really have a solo career, just wanted to share the music in another way and to learn more about writing, recording, etcetera.

Ken Hensley

#4. People often forget this - a vinyl album could only contain a maximum of 20 minutes per side!

Ken Hensley

#5. I have never learned to read or write music so I am not a virtuoso musician like the others you mentioned. I am completely unable to play like them because I never learned classical music, I just developed my own crazy style!

Ken Hensley

#6. If you want to capitulate to what commercial needs are, you can always be commercially valuable, but I'm not interested in being that.

Ken Hensley

#7. I lived in an area where there were a lot of rock musicians, and we got together regularly in our studios.

Ken Hensley

#8. Time, matter, space - all, it may be, are no more than a point.

Denis Diderot

#9. It was both exciting and frustrating to work with an orchestral group.

Ken Hensley

#10. I always write lyrics first and the rhythm and the melody come from the lyrics. It always comes from the lyrics: words have rhythm and words have melody.

Ken Hensley

#11. Time is round, and it rolls quickly.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#12. When we were making vinyl records we had a lot of time limitations for each record so songs were left off for a number of reasons. Now, with CDs, much more music can be included.

Ken Hensley

#13. YOU ARE THE CEO OF YOU

Andy Core

#14. When I left HEEP I didn't know what I wanted! It took me a long time to adjust to life away from the band and the only thing I knew was that I didn't want to repeat my mistakes!

Ken Hensley

#15. Without making any moral judgements whatsoever, one can say that self-indulgence and excessive self-preoccupation are the antithesis of genuine awareness.

Ronald Rolheiser

#16. I am, first of all, a Christian and, secondly, a person with very very serious personal opinion, so I'm motivated by many many things and, certainly, not by the need or desire to satisfy other people's ideas of who I am.

Ken Hensley

#17. THE GODS was my first professional band and I learned a lot during that time. It was very cool playing with so many great musicians as it helped me to learn.

Ken Hensley

#18. ... Aedion Ashryer let himself be led into the darkness ...
He did not mind dying.
Though he still wished he'd gotten a chance to see her - just once.

Sarah J. Maas

#19. All of us would like for everybody to be the kind of person we want them to be.

Ken Hensley

#20. It is always encouraging and kind when people say nice things about my work but I know that it is not me that did it then and it is not me that is doing it now. It is God living in me and for that I will always be grateful.

Ken Hensley

#21. It's like most anything. If you want to be a loser, there's always a way to dwell on the negative. If you want to win, there's always a way to think positively.

Tony La Russa

#22. I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and honor God and be an encouragement to others. What the future holds is firmly in God's hands, and I am very happy about that!

Ken Hensley

#23. I listen to the wind, to the wind of my soul
Where I end up, well, I think only God really knows

Yusuf Islam

#24. The past has infinite value if one learns from it.

Ken Hensley

#25. Visible Faith is an expression of my Christian faith which must be visible to be real! I gave the name to the collection of musicians who worked with me on the record.

Ken Hensley

#26. I'm not sure I can do this anymore." "My poor Adam. Always believing you are the valiant one, that right will triumph in the end. It's not always like that. The universe was not built on integrity. In the face of weakness, force can and will triumph. All you can do is choose who wields that force.

Anonymous

#27. I've heard you talk about this town like it's the only thing you love aside from fixing cars. People go entire lives without figuring out exactly what they want from life. You already have it, and the future you and your dad have planned out for you is going to take it away from you.

Adi Alsaid

#28. I could not claim them because I was not supposed to be flying in combat.

Adolf Galland

#29. Raven: So Alexander, now we know what we do all day. What do you do?
Alexander: I spend it thinking about you.

Ellen Schreiber

#30. It is hard to understand addiction unless you have experienced it.

Ken Hensley

#31. I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning. I think it's a little more melodic that way and doesn't sound so bluesy. Of course, if I could play like David Lindley or Ry Cooder, I'd be a happy man!

Ken Hensley

#32. I said, I mean I don't know what the fuck's going on. He looked around. We're playing pool, he said. I asked him, Is this today or yesterday?
- "Blackout

Keith Lee Morris

#33. There is a great temptation with songs, melodies and lyrics to overcomplicate them but in fact, you find that the most enduring melodies are often the simplest.

Ken Hensley

#34. I actually never knew Peter Green but I do respect his early work very much.

Ken Hensley

#35. You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched.

E.W. Howe