“When making his music, he [Elvis Presley] had been the essence of cool, but in his movies he was often a self-parody… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“It was music of a kind, at the same time soothing and invigorating, such a human place and time, when no one… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“although we universally celebrate imagination, it is in fact a power that can uplift us and save us --- or as easily… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
we must seize life because we never know how much of it remains for us, that faith is the antidote to despair… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
It is music that speaks to the deepest reaches of your soul, and you are lifted higher, ever higher, by the adagio,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Music is sound, sound consists of vibrations in the air, and these particular vibrations resonated with the marrow of my bones, with… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“If you're going to keep the music in you, Jonah, you've got to play a little bit every day purely for pleasure.… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Watching television news of freeway wrecks, apartment-building fires, and heinous murders, one sat numb and unaffected. Music that had once stirred the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“There is no end of wonders and mysteries: fireflies and music boxes, the stars that outnumber all the grains of sand on… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“In fact, time teaches us that the musical score of life oscillates between that of Psycho and that of The Sound of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“One reason Elvis mattered, she said, was that in his prime, pop music had still been politically innocent, therefore deeply life-affirming, therefore… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“This kind of derangement is emblematic of humankind. Grave faults are said to be only eccentricities, and imperfections are routinely celebrated as mere differences… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“He often remembered his dad's admonition that envy was mental theft. If you coveted another man's possessions, Dad said, then you should be willing… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of humor, faith that they were brought together… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Her mother said that three great powers kept the universe going. The first and the strongest was God. Each of the two additional powers… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“I stopped keeping an eye out for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve because, when I was five, my mother told me that Santa was… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“To one degree or another, I have been happy most of my life, in part because the world has infinite charms if you wish… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“This life is just a bootcamp, to test and toughen us, to prepare us for the next life of service in some great adventure.… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“A madman should have a madman’s laugh, not the warm chuckle of a favorite uncle.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Anger was a reliable defense, but one that allowed no chance of final victory. Anger was a medicine but never a cure, briefly numbing… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Nothing is predetermined for us, and yet all our possible choices are threads in the vast weave of things, so that we have free… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“In fact, time teaches us that the musical score of life oscillates between that of Psycho and that of The Sound of Music, with… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
![“When making his music, he [Elvis Presley] had been the essence of cool, but in his movies he was often a self-parody embarrassing to watch. Colonel Parker, his manager, who had picked movie scrips for him, had served Elvis less well than the monk Rasputin had served Czar Nicholas and Alexandra.” quote by Dean Koontz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e39/dean-koontz-118_music_when-making-his-music-he-elvis-presley-h_1758876.jpg)
