Poems & Quotes

Life is what I must create / my mind a cell I must escape / my frame a steed that I must break / my life a poem that I must stake. / To those who think that life’s a crutch / to them I say “get up, get up.”

“The difference between an amateur and an artist is how well one can state the obvious in a new light.”

“No matter how many times life seemed to beat him down, he always managed to get back up with a smile; because to him, it was the greatest thing he could ever experience: the love of life.”

“If ignorance is bliss, then knowledge must surely be misery.”

“Connotations will be the death of the English language.”

“Discomfort breeds ingenuity”

“The Composer is not God, the Score is not Scripture, and Performers are not Prophets. Those who believe that they are are not musicians but heretics.”

“In all of our existence—and any time therein—the importance of music has been sustained through its universal vauguity and the individual’s ascription of meaning.”

“I am convinced that I am inadequate”

“It takes only one mistake to make a man a monster.”

“Dreams aren’t about searching for what you don’t have or what you want. They’re about searching for what you’ve lost, or what you hope to gain. They’re the key to the door; they’re the map to guide you toward the destination. Desires are naturally selfish, but dreams… dreams are meant for the world to see.”

“I am giving you this choice; invest in your spirit, or in your flesh; either way, you will sacrifice a part of yourself.  The question is, which part can you live without?”

“There are two ways in which one can view the world. The first is seeing the world as it should be: untouched by sin and filled with a holy light. The second is seeing the world as it is: a place of our own creation, a place of perpetual darkness. The first laments for each shadow that is cast, but the second rejoices for every shimmer of light. Unfortunately, I am of the prior.”

“Choosing ignorance is like choosing cheap booze;. it might get you buzzed, but it’ll more than likely kill you for indulging it.”

“Pac-man is the definition of life; you eat until you die.”

-Brendan Moir