"People ask why music is being cut from public schools of America. The answer is simple. Music has been transformed in this country into an industry of image and lifestyle. The "Industry" has made music into pure entertainment. Musicians no longer realize their social responsibility. Musicians of today are trained to think that how they look and how they live is more important than thier talent. To believe that music is purely for entertainment is to commit musical suicide. Music is a reflection of our culture. It is what our culture is measured by, and years form now it is what historians will use to gauge the success... or failure... of our society. Music must always be used as a vehicle for social change and if it strays away from that, then it becomes expendible. To make music expendible is to make it obsolete, and to make it obsolete gives reason to erase it from school cirriculum. Musicians need to become more responsible citizens of the universe and return to a time when music was used to express politics, drama, and social injustice in the world. Not to realise this is to ensure the demise of music, and to ensure the demise of music is to ensure the demise of our own society. It will take brave musicians to step up to the plate and take the emphasis off of image to fix this problem, and my only fear is that this minority will not be vocal enough to save our culture. –L. F. K."

"My Dad impacted my life. It wasn't that he was great or bad but that he died when I was 19. That may not seem young to you but I'm 38 and it seems an age ago. It made me think that maybe soon I'd be dead to. (I may be!) so if I didn't have long left, ... what would I do with my life?? I reckon it's not about the length of your life, but the quality. Was the world better or worse as a result of your brief life?? I had a couple of people say tonight and I recon the world was a better place as a result of their times...."

"Only a week from today a baby was born. This baby is only 1/4 me yet he feels just like one. He is my nephew. Colin Gray. Seeing this new life so close to mine encourage my own life and the choices I make from now on. Cause ya never know when life will fall right into your lap."

"I'm Darkhappy. I had a kidney transplant. But Im sexy."
"ONE THING I IDENTIFY WITH IS CLIMBING. I'M AN OUTDOORSMAN....A MOUNTAINEER IF YOU WILL. IF YOU KNOW THIS ABOUT ME, YOU MIGHT FIND THIS FUNNY. LAST SUMMER SOME FRIENDS AND I TOOK SOME TIME FOR A ROADTRIP TO DO SOME CLIMBING IN WEST VIRGINIA. I MET UP WITH SOME FRIENDS ON A ROADTRIP OF THEIR OWN FOR THE CULMINATION OF A GREAT TIME. WE GOT OUR CLIMB ON, DRANK THE HIGH LIFE (I DON'T CONDONE THIS AT ALL) AND HAD AN AMAZING TIME. ON OUR LAST DAY TOGETHER AS A GROUP WE WENT TO ONE LAST CLIMBING SPOT, ABOUT SEVEN OF US IN ALL. IT WAS ABOUT 8AM AT THE TIME WE PULLED IN TO THE CRAG. WE WERE ALL SET TO HIKE DOWN TOGETHOR WHEN, MY AS OF THEN NEW FRIEND, TIM, DECIDED HE NEEDED MORE TIME TO COLLECT HIS THOUGHTS AND GEAR. FOR SOME REASON I DECIDED TO STAY BEHIND WITH HIM, WHICH, UNBENOUNCED TO ME WOULD BE THE MOST IMPORTANT DECISION OF MY LIFE. ALL OF OUR FRIENDS WERE DOWN CLIMBING, AND... KEEP IN MIND THAT TIM AND I ARE CLIMBERS AND MOUNAINEERS...ARE UNABLE TO FIND OUR WAY DOWN TO THEM) HE AND I SPENT THE REST OF THE DAY TALKING, GETTING TO REALLY KNOW EACH OTHER. IT WAS THEN THAT WE FOUND OUT THAT WE SHARE THE SAME FATHER. FROM THAT MOMENT ON, I HAVE DEVOTED MY TIME, THOUGHTS AND LOVE FOR THAT FATHER AND HAVE GIVEN MY LIFE TO CHRIST. –J. M."

“The ocean is the source. All is right. Go back to the source within. All is right. Go back. Go back. Go back.... Go back to your source. All will be alright."

"One Thing? Oxygen. Everything else can be improvised.
-B. P. June 3, 2005"

"I've been in bars, and I've seen people get nasty, when they'd otherwise not be! Booze does cause people to do what they'd not do normally. Therefore, the thing that's changed my life is to be a happy (Happy is underlined twice) drunk.
-A. P. 6/3/05"

"Bars are not about liquor
They are a medium to allow you interaction with your friends.
-P."

"The thing that impacted me the most was when I was committed to a mental institution at the age of 16... greatest time of my life" (you should see Tom's crazy handwriting... just kidding...ha ha ha... it's just a little bit drunken...)-T. M."

"IF YOU EVER CARED TO HEAR GOD LAUGH.... TELL HIM/HER WHAT YOUR PLANS ARE. KEEP LOVING BECAUSE IT'S THE BEST FEELING YOU WILL KNOW AND ONE DAY THAT SOMEONE HOPEFULLY, MIGHT UNDERSTAND WHAT LOVE IS. IF YOU ARE LOOKING TO EXPERIENCE LIFE DON'T FORGET THE ONE YOU IN!! Love can hurt more than the thought of Death. -R. E. M"

"Here's what I've learned...
My padre was primarily a SURFER, in his heart of hearts, but was a banker by trade. He always dreamed of living in the Islands, surfing, and renting bikes out for somethin' to do while the waves were flat. As he said - Better Days Are Ahead - so the future was always on his mind, but I lost him to cancer at 58... So here's what I learned - do what's important NOW - one never knows, so... here's what I've done - gone & graduated from Nursing School and I will go on to be a MIDWIFE, something I've always wanted, but always feared... this is what my dear POP taught me... T.W. 6-3-05"


"6/9/05 - MAJOR IMPACTS @ 58 YRS. OLD!

-FAMILY -CHILDREN
-RELIGION -GRANDCHILDREN
-EDUCATION -SPORTS
-CAREER -FRIENDS
-VIETNAM ERA

DON'T MEAN TO PROVIDE LAUNDRY LIST, BUT THAT'S WHY LIFE IS. EACH ONE OF THE ABOVE TOPICS COULD HAVE PAGES UPON PAGES WRITTEN, BUT TIME IN A BAR DOESN'T PERMIT ONE TO WAX ELOQUENTLY. BEST OF LUCK ON YOUR PROJECT. GOD BLESS AMERICA!!"

"A man can know himself.
A man can know his surroundings.
A man can know of unknowable.
-M. G. 2005"