Ian Axel Quotes

I detest 'Jingle Bells,' 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,' and the obscene spending bonanza that nowadays seems to occupy not just December, but November and much of October, too.

The earliest you can play Christmas music is on Thanksgiving.

Christmas music is usually more concentrated pop music in a way. It's meant to make us feel good, and it's meant to make us like we belong somewhere.

If you're happy all of the time, it's difficult to acknowledge when you actually are happy.

I was carrying two cargoes. Yes, one of them was horror, but the other one was hope.

Those worship songs on the Christmas project will air on PBS television. That's highly unusual.

Hatred is keener than friendship, less keen than love.

Melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.

I think that hurting gives us a way to measure being happy. How can you know one without knowing the other.

Perhaps without the lows, the highs could not be reached.

Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.

Because hate's just the flip side of love. Like heads and tails on a dime. If you don't know what it feels like to love someone, how would you know what hate is? One can't exist without the other.

A perfect schedule is to be able to do something dark and then go into something lighter to ease up a little bit.

The more ups and downs, the more joy I feel. The greater the fear, the greater the happiness I feel.

A little misery, at times, makes one appreciate happiness more.

A spoonful of hope and a cup of despair

You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".

If we are to feel the positive feelings of love, happiness, trust, and gratitude, we periodically also have to feel anger, sadness, fear, and sorrow.

The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.

The thing about Christmas music is the recognizability. It's great.

Dancing music, music sad, Both together, sane and mad.

On sorrow floats laughter.

I love all holiday music. My two favorites would probably be Donny Hathaway's "This Christmas" and Nat King Cole's "The Christmas Song." They epitomize Christmas for me. Those two recordings will never be touched. That's why I've never redone them.

The aftermath of joy is not usually more joy.