Looking For a Good Book

“No one had such a love of life, and no one tried harder to kill himself.”
Chuck Haddix – Bird: The Life and Music of Charlie Parker

“He had been married twice, had a young son and an old habit.”
Chuck Haddix – Bird: The Life and Music of Charlie Parker

“I get smart when I’m nervous. Right now I’m fecking brilliant.”
Alexia Gordon – Murder in G Major

“Art moves on – just like we do.”
E. Ashley Rooney – Painted Sky

“We were not only hearing something for the first time, but something at the first time it could be heard.”
Michael Nesmith – Infinite Tuesday

“In the arts, hype is toxic and gives off a warning rattle and foul odor.”
Michael Nesmith – Infinite Tuesday

“It’s not the sound of your song that coaxes out truth. It’s the sincerity.”
Roshani Chokshi – A Crown of Wishes

“If you don’t have zany fun like this when you are fifteen, when can you?”
Patricia Gallo-Stenman – Diary of a Beatlemaniac

“My own primary criterion for my favorite rock songs is simply how many repeated listenings they can sustain. Do I crave them across time? When I do it’s because even in the familiarity there is still mystery and surprise.”
Nicholas Dawidoff – “A Day in the Life” from In Their Lives

“Sometimes a beautiful voice can change a kingdom better than a sword ever could.”
Rin Chupeco – The Bone Witch