With family dramas, it's hard to keep those stories alive.
What I'm doing is keeping the spirit of Rock'N Roll alive. Rock 'n roll is supposed to be fast and loud and its supposed to piss off the older generation.
The secret of being more vitally alive is to be more aware. Starting today, from this moment, become aware of awareness!
When all the suns and nebulae have passed away, each one of you will still be alive.
I'm right here right now and I want now to be the Golden Age. . . if only each generation would realize that the time for greatness is right now when they're alive. . . the time to flower is now.
Nobody is fully alive who cannot apply to art as much discrimination and appreciation as he applies to the work by which he earns his living.
I love your silences, they are like mine. You are the only being before whom I am not distressed by my own silences. You have a vehement silence, one feels it is charged with essences, it is a strangely alive silence, like a trap open over a well, from which one can hear the secret murmur of the earth itself.
Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn't come alive until the leader models it.
Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.
How amazing it is to be alive Anyone who lives and breathes and puts both feet on the ground, What possible reason could he have for envying the gods
We are intent on building a movement. The next step is grassroots town meetings. We must keep alive the dialogue around the covenants.
I am invincible, as long as I'm alive.
The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to finger its jagged grain, and to transcend it, not by the consolation of philosophy but by squeezing from it a near-tragic, near-comic lyricism. As a form, the blues is an autobiographical chronicle of personal catastrophe expressed lyrically.
I got an amazing 10-CD set, it's the music that Alan Lomax recorded in Haiti in 1936. And what's incredible is how fantastic the drummers are and how off-the-grid they are. The liveliness is astonishing; they're just totally alive, these recordings. It's very interesting, to me, to be reminded of that, that there was a time when things were not that tight.
All artists yearn to struggle, when they struggle they know they're alive.
Life to me is just so precious. I fail to see the wrong in keeping someone alive who's still got quality of life even if it's only for a few months.
When I did that interview with Hepburn, the only ground rule was, you did not discuss Spencer Tracy. Spencer Tracy's widow is still alive, and she respected that.
How warm I feel. How icredibly alive and vibrant and heedless every last inch of me feels next to you.
Now that you've grown up You can finally learn to be a child We made it to the end of the world But we'll never make it out alive.
We all have to die a bit every now and then and usually it's so gradual that we end up more alive than ever. Infinitely old and infinitely alive.