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Life is much more of a compromise than I ever imagined.

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Regular life, our humanness, often gets pushed aside. -Fingerprint

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I must at least tell somebody, even only God and myself, what I have seen and felt.

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A lot of times I wonder what Adam would have written songs about. -Appalachian Melody

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Writing brings about a catharsis of my own terror and pity. It is something I have to do.

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I am apt to hire musicians sometimes because I know they will have some good jokes to tell.

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Sounds are indeed like colors, and my hunger for a truer palette of colors grows day to day.

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Any system of thought which allows no value to human thought will destroy its own efforts. -Fingerprint

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But the music business is no more about truth on the outside of the Christian ghetto than it is on the inside.

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Perhaps we have more in common by virtue of our common humanity than we have differences by virtue of our religions.

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I wish sometimes that I just didn't have to think about any of this, and could drone away my life. It would be easier.

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Trying to avoid clichés helps life become fresh again, helps us remember what life is about in the first place. -Fingerprint

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I much prefer making music to talking about it. There's something visceral about instruments and voices that transcends words.

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Did you know that Bertrand Russell dropped all belief in God because he wasn't able to voice his doubts in the company of believers? -Appalachian Melody

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Why pray to a god who would rather speak through say, a stone? Too bad that God made so many people who are interested in music and so few stones who are.

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I'm not sure what ministry really is, and that whatever it is, God seems to be kind enough to wrap it into our efforts and sometimes wise enough to bestow it in spite of them.

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I have heard people say that reason leads to agnosticism, but I don't think that is necessarily the case. It was the other way around for me - it led to faith. -Appalachian Melody

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Maybe those inclined towards the arts are so spiritually retarded to a degree that we must go through the whole process of cathartic expression just to discover how we really feel.

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If every Christian would treat just one other person with real love, I'm sure more would come to faith than do at present, with all our mass harvesting techniques. -Appalachian Melody

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Until we learn the language of those outside the Church, the language of their hearts and the language of their minds, we will never be able to communicate properly. -Appalachian Melody

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That's what music is about, and those are the types of experiences I value most in looking for the visceral and unidentifiable thing it is that makes music music, and not something else.

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It's terribly demeaning to write something that tells its story in its own way and be told it fails because it might scare somebody. My God, must we speak with all the candor of a wax Elvis?

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I am increasingly irresponsible, it seems, in that I take on the mantle of Peter Pan and follow the second star to the right directly between a pair of speakers, or to the case that holds my mandolin.

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