Mark Heard quotes

“Heaven help a timid child in a trendy tide He really doesn't know That his heart's being taken for a ride Doing what the world lays down As a steadfast rule And changing when the world says to change Like a steadfast fool Heaven, heaven help me I'm one of the dominoes Chain reaction coming Blow by blow”
-- Mark Heard

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“I much prefer making music to talking about it. There's something visceral about instruments and voices that transcends words.”
-- Mark Heard

Source : "A Musician's Diary". Essay by Mark Heard. "Bearing the Mystery: Twenty Years of IMAGE". Book by Gregory Wolfe, 2009.

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“Perhaps we have more in common by virtue of our common humanity than we have differences by virtue of our religions.”
-- Mark Heard

Source : "A Musician's Diary". Essay by Mark Heard. "Bearing the Mystery: Twenty Years of IMAGE". Book by Gregory Wolfe, 2009.

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“But the music business is no more about truth on the outside of the Christian ghetto than it is on the inside.”
-- Mark Heard

Source : "A Musician's Diary". Essay by Mark Heard. "Bearing the Mystery: Twenty Years of IMAGE". Book by Gregory Wolfe, 2009.

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“Music is a solace for me now. As I age, contrary to common sense, I am more and more drawn into it and apt to spend more of my waking and some of my sleeping hours thinking about it, or just feeling about it. It is my escape.”
-- Mark Heard

Source : "A Musician's Diary". Essay by Mark Heard. "Bearing the Mystery: Twenty Years of IMAGE". Book by Gregory Wolfe, 2009.

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“There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

“Everything. I have done everything you wanted...You asked that the child be taken. I took him. You cowered before me. I was frightening...I have reordered time...I have turned the world upside down...And I have done it all for you. I am exhausted from living up to your expectations.”

“The artist draws a picture of a rose very nicely with all attention and artistic sense, and yet it does not become as perfect as the real rose. If that is the real fact, how can we say that the real rose has taken its shape without Intelligence behind the beauty?”

“Thats a wonderful change thats taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.”

“Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits to the scene, the casual conversations, and more formal interviews - talking, and listening, and looking, looking. ... And finally, the pictures themselves, each one planned, talked, taken and examined in terms of the whole.”

Source : Aaron Siskind, Maricia Battle, Ann Banks, Federal Writers' Project, National Museum of American Art (U.S.) (1990). “Harlem photographs, 1932-1940”, Smithsonian Inst Pr

“President Bartlet: There's a delegation of cardiologists having their pictures taken in the Blue Room. You wouldn't think you could find a group of people more arrogant than the fifteen of us, but there they are, right upstairs in the Blue Room.”

“Art is too serious to be taken seriously.”

Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.14, Univ of California Press

“The safe place lies in obedience to God's Word, singleness of heart and holy vigilance.”

“I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could not save They braced their belts about them, They crossed in ships the sea, They sought and found six feet of ground, And there they died for me.”

“He would not stay for me, and who can wonder? He would not stay for me to stand and gaze. I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder, And went with half my life about my ways.”