Heart Songs

"music isn't just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. 

it's a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it's joy. 

love. a foretaste of heaven. a comfort in grief. is it too much to think that perhaps God speaks to us sometimes through music? how, then, could i be so ungrateful as to refuse the message?"

- orson scott card

- ralph waldo emerson

"...and i thought about how many people have loved those songs. and how many people got through a lot of bad times because of those songs. and how many people enjoyed good times with those songs. and how much those songs really mean. i think it would be great to have written one of those songs. i bet if i wrote them, i would be very proud. i hope the people who wrote those songs are happy. i hope they feel it's enough. i really do because they've made me happy. and i'm only one person."

- stephen chbosky

"music is enough for a lifetime,