Patrick Simmons quotes

Old black water, keep on rollin' Mississippi moon won't you keep on shinin' on me?
-- Patrick Simmons

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What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of health and disease, of joy or sorrow. There are times in our lives when we seem to go singing on our way, and when the beauty of the world sets itself like a quiet harmony to the song we uplift.

Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind--these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell. It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.

The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song. Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.

A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.

I think the fans really wanna hear the songs the way they sound on the record.

I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either. Nobody goes faster than the legs they have. If where I want to go is far away, I’m not there in an instant.

Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for the piping. And the piper.

When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.

Water’s water and that’s why it’s beautiful.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.