"If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all."
--Isaiah 7:9 --

"When people believe in boundaries, they become part of them."
--Don Cherry--

"Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life."
--Billy Joel--

"The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides!"
--Artur Schnabel--

"All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song."
--Louis Armstrong--

"If you're going to make a mistake, make it loud so everybody else sounds wrong."
--Joe Venuti --

"A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence."
--Leopold Stokowski --

"For the LORD will not reject his people; he will never forsake his inheritance. "
—Psalm 94:14 --

"I think that a musician is like a doctor, he's supposed to heal people and make them feel better."
—Steve Turre--

"It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something."
—Ornette Coleman--

"It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself."
—Johann Sebastian Bach--

"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity."
—Charles Mingus--

"Wes Montgomery played impossible things on the guitar because it was never pointed out to him that they were impossible."
--Ronnie Scott--

"I am a servant of the music...if I get caught up in ego, I'll lose everything...it'll burn and that's a guarantee.."
-Eric Clapton--

"If you don't make mistakes you aren't really trying."
--Coleman Hawkins--

"You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail."
--Charlie Parker--

"Talent is cheap, and many talents treat themselves cheaply."
--Bill Evans

"It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play."
--Dizzy Gillespie

"Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn."
--Charlie Parker--

"In any conflict, the first one to the Cross wins."
--Al Ells--

Did you know that the only difference between the words Worship and Warship is only one letter ? A WARShip is used to attack the enemy . WORShip is used to attack and defeat the enemy...

"Sometimes you have to play for a long time to be able to play like yourself."
--Miles Davis--