Catherine Drinker Bowen Quotes

I love Stephen Stills and Neil Young dearly. We talk all the time. We see each other.

A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.

I think there's a natural chemistry between us as friends; and there's really no separation between the rapport that we feel when we're in conversation and when we're playing music, it's one in the same.

I think music naturally wants to be played with more than one person. There's a surprise element, and you don't know what it will be, and it's up to that other person's energy to help create this third thing.

The longer you stand with people, the better it becomes.

Having people I love around me - friends and family - is great, but I don't necessarily need a relationship.

Music is a dialogue.

Love is a friendship set to music.

I think romance is friendship and attraction sort of meeting together and that does influence what I'm writing a lot. I try to establish the attraction, obviously, but I also think it's important to show the characters having actual conversations about things other than their feelings for each other - and to develop their friendship on the page.

The value of friends has always been a natural thing. I prefer too many to too few.

Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.

Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired.

If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family.

I just like playing music and doing it with people that I care about. It doesn't really matter where. It's like, 'Why don't we just play piano in a small bar? Why do we want to make an arena full of people happy?'

Friends are like fiddle strings; they must not be screwed too tight.

You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.

No way, because there's love relationships, there's sex relationships and then there's the band.

Chickenfoot, my relationship with those guys is great.

For being in a relationship or to be linked up with somebody, you need to have time. I hang out with my friends just at my leisure, but there's no time to get into any link up.

I'm self-sufficient, but it's brilliant to have people in your life that you love, who love you and are important to you.

I had always been aware of George's importance to me, of the bond of friendship and of the sparkle and light, effervescence and electricity that suffused the music we made.

A true friend is a sort of second self.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

The life I love is making music with my friends.

Life is better when you share it.