Maciejko Alyssa Quotes

#1. Musicians have to do what they do and express it musically. All the blah blah blah will get lost in the dialogue.

Carlos Alomar

#2. When you're not goal-striving, not looking forward, you're not really living.

Maxwell Maltz

#3. Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.

Jodi Picoult

#4. The older I get the more I realize there's no real good guys or real bad guys, and I'm curious about how the good guys got good and how the bad guys got bad.

Ted Demme

#5. In chanting, one tries to find one's own sound, literally, and then to go within that-to find the sounds within one's own sound, to bring out that which is within, to go into, explore and discover oneself.

Jill Purce

#6. We are given the potential to excel, whether we do or not is entirely up to us.

Steven Redhead

#7. What right does my present have to speak of my past? Has my present some advantage over my past? What "grace" might have enlightened me? except that of passing time, or of a good cause, encountered on my way?

Roland Barthes