American Quotes

One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

You can't get away from who you are I guess.

To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.

They lyrical content has grown more introspective and less abstract. I don't know if that's good or bad... Sometimes it feels a little raw to be putting so much of myself out there.

There's nothing remotely interesting to me about marketing music as a product.

The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half a million votes less nationally than Gore. It was nothing more than a bloodless coup and that's when I really started paying attention.

In my mid 30's, after a decade or so of giving full time to the music thing and finding myself with about $10 in the bank and no assets other than my musical equipment, I realized I needed to get serious about making a living.

I probably had the most fun recording For Richer For Poorer in Nashville.

I pretty much ignored politics all through my 20's and 30's... I had other things on my mind... the band, finding a meaningful relationship, getting enough money to eat and pay the rent.

I have always abhorred the business end of music.

I followed most of the 80's bands into the 90's as most of those folks who hadn't moved away were all still active. However, there was a point when I lost track of the new bands coming up.

I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though.

I also spend a lot of time on political blogs, and music blogs getting things for my radio show.

Each of my records has a different focus, a different theme.

Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of my soul.

At the time I attempted to purchase the rights back for the 3 Homestead records, but the owner demanded an outrageous sum in the neighborhood of $10,000, about 10 times more money than I could get my hands on at the time.

I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.

To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.

The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.

Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.

Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.

The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.

There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation; which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and.

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.