#rave

History doesn't repeat itself, but it harmonizes, and what it usually makes is the devil's music. ↗

— Stephen King

#time-travel #music

If Poe had stuck only to these principles, he would have written Love Story. Luckily he knew that if plot is the dominant element in every story, it must however be tempered with other elements...Hence his calculation of the number of lines, his analysis of the musicality of the word "Nevermore," and the deliberate visual contrast between Pallas's white breast and the blackness of the raven, and everything that makes "The Raven" a poetic composition and not a horror film. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#the-raven #love

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones. ↗

— Jules Verne

#brave #cannot #human #laws #may

Bravery and Stupidity are the same thing, the outcome determines your label. ↗

— Hayden Sixx

#courage #inspirational #courage

My goal is not to frighten you. My goal is to make you fight your fears. ↗

— Moffat Machingura

#courage #fear #fears #fight #fight-your-fears

Cometh the hour, cometh the man. ↗

— Cliff Gladwin

#clutch #cometh #courage #inspirational #inspire

I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything should just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment'. ↗

— Andy Warhol

#epitaph #grave #heaven #hell #life

If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#bravery #carpe-diem #risk #risks #soul

Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvising musicians are capable of being musical travelers, voyagers. We want to join in on whatever we hear. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape. ↗

— Gary Burton

#capable #certainly #common #discovering #experiences

As when astronaut Mike Mulhane was asked by a NASA psychiatrist what epitaph he'd like to have on his gravestone, Mulhane answered, "A loving husband and devoted father," though in reality, he jokes in "Riding Rockets," "I would have sold my wife and children into slavery for a ride into space. ↗

— Mary Roach

#truth #love