Lewis Carroll Quotes

I love to dance, but the flip side is that I can't dance.

Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it.

it doesn't take long to stay an hour.

Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.

If the beat is time, flow is what we do with that time, how we live through it. The beat is everywhere, but every life has to find its own flow.

Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.

Music forecasts the past, recalls the future. Now and then the difference falls away, and in one simple gift of circling sound, the ear solves the scrambled cryptogram. One abiding rhythm, present and always, and you're free. But a few measures more, and the cloak of time closes back around you.

I don't have a microwave oven, but I do have a clock that occasionally cooks stuff.

A dance to the music of time.

I don't wear a watch because I want my arms to weigh the same. So if somebody asks me what time it is, I have to tell them something that is going on. "What time is it, Mitch?" "Uh, that guy is eating a hamburger." "Shi*, I had to be somewhere..."

I'm very bad, but I like to dance.

You can't buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.

Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio. What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that nobodyasksme; but if Iamasked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled.

The preciousness of the moment, which should make it easier to talk, makes it harder.

Secrets stolen from deep inside....the drum beats out of time

Occupation is the scythe of time.

Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.

Time is a social institution and not a physical reality. There is no such thing as time in the natural world - the world of stars and waters, clouds, mountains and living organisms. There is such a thing as rhythm - rhythm of tides, rhythm of biological processes... There is rhythm and there is motion. Time is a way of measuring motion.

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

I conduct faster so you can see my beat.

One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.

Great talkers do not stop for breath, and never look at the clock.

We talk about saving time and killing time when actually we can't do either. We have no choice but to spend it at a constant and flowing rate.

With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before