Gord Downie Quotes

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

I like the idea of being warm and secure. That's what home should be. That you have a sense of warmth, security, love, and you love the things around you and surround yourself with beauty.

I believe in the power of song. Under the spell of the right song, passion is within reach, love is close by, and you are not alone!

Peace begins with a smile.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace.

Being with Kyra is so natural for me; it's the easiest aspect of my life. I know that I don't need a beach or room service to be happy.

Then I began to play. Variations on a G major chord, the most wonderful chord known to mankind, infinitely happy. I could live inside a G major chord, with Grace, if she was willing. Everything uncomplicated and good about me could be summed up by that chord.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

The human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere - in landscape, music, art, clothes, furniture, gardening, companionship, love, religion, and in ourselves. No one would desire not to be beautiful. When we experience the beautiful, there is a sense of homecoming.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.

What all of us long for in our hearts, at Christmastime and always, is to feel bound together in love with the sweet assurance that it can last forever.

If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here.

Today we are in a war against war - music is our power.

It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

Love, peace and soul.

Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.

If we could make our house a home, and then make it a sanctuary, I think we could truly find paradise on Earth.

The thing we're all looking for is happiness, and if we achieve just a modicum of that or even a little piece of serenity even for five minutes a day, we're very lucky.

Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.

The great love of my life is music.

I think comfort, stability, and love are the things that really let me be happy. Deep down inside I'm a little boring, I guess.