For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.

Quote by Paula Cole

Topics: Anger Quotes, Compassion Quotes, Music Quotes, Pain Quotes

When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be...

When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be...

The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of...

The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of...

Feminists were psyched that I had armpit hair.

Feminists were psyched that I had armpit hair.

Just watching my cats can make me happy.

Just watching my cats can make me happy.

I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death...

I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death...

I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art...

I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art...

The monsters are in your own head.

The monsters are in your own head.

If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way...

If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way...

I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for...

I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for...

The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more...

The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more...

I've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to...

I've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to...

Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is...

Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is...

Anger always comes from frustrated expectations

Anger always comes from frustrated expectations

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing...

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing...

Anger is natural. It's part of the force. You just have to learn to hang...

Anger is natural. It's part of the force. You just have to learn to hang...

Anyone who angers you conquers you

Anyone who angers you conquers you

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and...

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and...

Anger is a wound gone mad.

Anger is a wound gone mad.

Expressing anger is a form of public littering.

Expressing anger is a form of public littering.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help,...

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help,...

Fear grows out of the things we think; it lives in our minds. Compassion grows...

Fear grows out of the things we think; it lives in our minds. Compassion grows...

Music, the mosaic of the air

Music, the mosaic of the air

There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an...

There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an...