Henry Miller Quotes

If there was a wrong note, it didn't matter as long as it was rocking.

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.

Jazz is letting everybody do his or her thing with the music.

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

There were no rules, other than that the song should sound good and be fun to play.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.

I like that feeling of letting loose, of not planning every step. The best performances are the ones that you just let happen.

To me, music is a river. I have lived my life beside the river. Every day, I get up and look at the river. I watch it and notice when it rises and falls.

Rhythm is God. I think, without rhythm, you can't create - there is no art.

Music is something no one can control.

I always loved music, to dance, and to be really active. When I started skating, it was the first time all of these things came together. It felt like magic, and I always wanted to be at the rink.

There is nothing in life I would want to control. I love the way nature has given a flow to everything and would love to go with the flow.

I dance as best I can. I try to let the music flow freely through my legs.

It's so easy to become caught up by, 'I've got to do this,' or, 'I've got to do that,' and most of the times, the best stuff comes from when you are not trying to do anything and when you let go.

Jazz has a lot to do with being very present. You know the structure, then you flow through it.

Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves.

The piano ain't got no wrong notes.

Jazz has endured because it doesn't have a beginning or an ending. It's a moment.

You need to open up so that more comes through. And you can just feel that when your ego is not in the way and when you're letting it be what it wants to be. You have to let it be what it wants to be as opposed to what you think it should be.

"Dance," said the Sheep Man. "Yougottadance. Aslongasthemusicplays. Yougotta dance. Don'teventhinkwhy. Starttothink, yourfeetstop. Yourfeetstop, wegetstuck. Wegetstuck, you'restuck. Sodon'tpayanymind, nomatterhowdumb. Yougottakeepthestep. Yougottalimberup. Yougottaloosenwhatyoubolteddown. Yougottauseallyougot. Weknowyou're tired, tiredandscared. Happenstoeveryone, okay? Justdon'tletyourfeetstop."

Jazz is my adventure.

I'm not really a goal-oriented guy. I started doing the Mountain Goats just for the sheer hell of it.