John Abercrombie Quotes

It's not realistic to imagine that any poem will last forever. Our species won't last forever! We try to capture and preserve our impressions of reality because it's all going away: everything we think and remember, everything we've ever felt, everyone we love.

Let me create great music, go in the studio, and possibly become a memory and a time stamp in people's lives - and just give the best performances, because I know that's all that really matters.

Time is a sandpile we run our fingers in.

Some thoughts went through my head about recording some stuff that had influenced me earlier in my career like blues and early rock. But it didn't seem to really make sense at that point - it might have been taken the wrong way. A lot of people already had been into that trip.

And here you are hurried, And here you are gone; And here is the love, That it's all built upon.

You stick your finger in the water and you pull it out, and that is how much of a hole you leave when you're gone.

I leave no trace of wings in the air, but I am glad I have had my flight.

Only times and places, only names and ghosts.

What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish.

The dotted line my father's ashplant made On Sandymount Strand Is something else the tide won't wash away.

Our sense that things are transient, that everything is passing and then if you want to save something from the endless flux of experience and the world's movement, you have to set down a stake and try and make something that will last.

Not to hope for things to last forever, is what the year teaches and even the hour which snatches a nice day away.

Thank you Prince for all of your inspiration and sharing your increadible talents with the world. You will be incredibly missed.

Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing.

The supremacy of the verbal over the monumental has something about it of the supremacy of life over death.

You have to remember that goodbyes are temporary because no one ever really leaves and nothing lasts forever. People are always with us, because they are in our hearts and in our memory. The only thing we can depend on is change... Life is just a series of moments -- a string of pearls that make up the necklace of your life and so every once in a while, to complete the circle, you need to end a chapter.

I miss him already. He was a unique person and a dear friend. If a record came on the radio, you'd know it was Waylon Jennings.

That's what it's all about - making art is making something live forever. Human beings especially - we can't hold on to them in any way. Painting and art is a way of holding onto things and making things go on through time.

Goodbye, Papa, you saved me. You taught me to read. No one can play like you. I'll never drink champagne. No one can play like you." -Liesel

Clouds float in the same pattern only once.

Even the one moment that you thought was your eternity fades out and is forgotten and dies.

Time is that in which all things pass away.

Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment.