Bill Kreutzmann Quotes

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

I'm quite an untidy person in a lot of ways. But order makes me happy. I have to have a clear desk and a tidy desktop, with as few visual distractions as possible. I don't mind sound distractions, but visual ones freak me out.

There is a beauty and clarity that comes from simplicity that we sometimes do not appreciate in our thirst for intricate solutions.

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.

People just loved the sound because I kept it simple.

But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony.

Having good health, being able to breathe and be happy, that's one of the most beautiful gifts. On top of that, I have the gift to play music and make people happy through that. I'm just telling you from my heart, I'm so in love with life.

The objects you decide to keep, the ones that gave you the spark of joy? Treasure them from now on. When you put things away, you can actually audibly say, 'Hey, thank you for the good work today...' By doing so, it becomes easier for you to put the objects away and treasure them, which prolongs the spark of joy environment.

A good poem brims with reflected beauty and even a bracing, beautiful ugliness. At the center of our lives, in the midst of the busyness and the forgetting, is a story that makes sense when everything extraneous has been taken away.

I'll say life is simpler.

I realize that I live in the same environment that I did when I was a kid, but with less junk and better art.

The art of art... is simplicity.

When you play Mozart, it's so clean, it's so simple. It's the body naked.

Simplicity is not the absence of clutter.

I try to play the bare essence, to let everything be just what it's supposed to be.

Simplicity is a jewel rarely found.

Acknowledge the elegance of simplicity.

All the great things are simple.

With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.

I think it is vanity to want to put into a story anything but the story itself.

Nina knew the power of black and white images. Sometimes a thing was its truest self when the colors were stripped away.

You are so beautiful to me.

In complexity, it is only simplicity that can be interesting.

If you hold onto the beauty and inspiration and the clarity that is music, you will have an anchor, you will not be too far swayed by what the world is