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POETRY SERIES |
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A STARRY NIGHT PRODUCTIONS:
Music was provided by local musicians.
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 Music is what feelings sound like. Author Unknown |
 Our two raffle baskets. |
 D.B. Pacini welcomes everyone. |
 Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture your heart. Ancient American Indian Proverb |
 Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. Anton Chekhov |
 Poet Danielle Keady |
 In the long run, the sword is always beaten by the spirit. Napoleon Bonaparte |
 Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. Scott Adams |
 What would you attempt today if you could not fail? Anonymous |
 Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all. Emily Dickinson |
 No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. Confucius |
 It is difficult to give away kindness. It keeps coming back to you. Cort Flint |
 If every living body were assured of love, peace could create itself. Hallmark Card |
 Poet Wallace Condon |
 There's nothing that says you have to succeed in the same way as someone else. In fact, there's nothing that says you must define success in the same way as someone else. Ralph Marston |
 Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure. Henri Nouwen |
 Honored Guest Poet --- Mr. Jim Turner |
 No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read. Lemony Snicket |
 The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer. Fridtjof Nansen |
 Have the courage to live. Anyone can die. Author Unknown |
 Poet Taylor Graham |
 We need not think alike to love alike. Francis David |
 Leap and the net will appear. Author Unknown |
 Knowledge is power. Francis Bacon |
 Poet D.B. Pacini |
 If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor. William Burroughs |
 The best proof of love is trust. Author Unknown |
 Poet Hatch Graham reads Vincent (Starry Starry Night) by Don McLean |
 If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. Vincent van Gogh |
 Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all. Franklin P. Adams, Half a Loaf, 1927 |
 Tim Christensen and Special Guest Stan McFadden |
 Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence. Anonymous |
 Do you know what astonished me the most in this world? The inability of force to create anything. Napoleon Bonaparte |
 "You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise." Spock, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan |
 Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
 The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them. Albert Einstein |
 Kites rise highest against the wind. Author Unknown |
 Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality. Les Brown |
 How rich art is; if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never without food for thought or truly lonely, never alone. Vincent van Gogh |
 If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters. Alan Simpson |
 A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. Emo Philips |
 Poet Donald R. Anderson |
 Do, or do not. There is no ‘try’. Yoda, The Empire Strikes Back |
 We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill |
 Never stop dreaming. Author Unknown |
 A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
 Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. Edmund Burke |
 Poet Stephen M. Wilson |
 Everything you can imagine is real. Picasso |
 No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. Voltaire |
 I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. Mohandas Gandhi |
 Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. Maya Angelou |
 Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more. Vincent van Gogh |
 When we dream we make connections that astound us later. The same thing happens on the page when we forget ourselves and as it were, watch our own waking dream. Later we can make sense of what we've created and craft it accordingly. That's when we appreciate the poetry of our unconscious mind. Tom Batt |
 Poet Marie J. Ross |
 Believe the impossible. Author Unknown |
 I tell you, the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. Vincent van Gogh |
 If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path. Buddha |
 The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. Anonymous |
 No pressure, no diamonds. Mary Case |
 The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore. Vincent Van Gogh |
 Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents; it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children. Ancient American Indian Proverb |
 Poet Loretta (La-Rue’) Duncan-Fowler |
 Give what you have to someone, it may be better than you dare to think. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
 Great Spirit, help me always to speak the truth quietly, to listen with an open mind when others speak, and to remember the peace that may be found in silence. American Indian Cherokee Prayer |
 All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. James Thurber |
 What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. Eagle Chief (Letakos-Lesa) Pawnee |
 Once you get people laughing,they're listening, and you can tell them almost anything. Herbert Gardner |
 Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging. Deepak Chopra |
 Poet Eric Goines |
 You only live once, but if you live right, once is enough. Anonymous |
 To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
 The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind. Maya Angelou |
 Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead |
 Poet Hatch Graham |
 No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding. Plato |
 I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone. Bill Cosby |
 Doing something does not require discipline. It creates its own discipline with a little help from caffeine. Annie Dillard |
 The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you. B. B. King |
 Writers are just people who have a whole lot on the inside that they need to get to the outside, with pen and paper as their preferred method of transport. Same with dancers, artists, and singers, all the same urges with differing transportation. Graycie Harmon |
 For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. Nelson Mandela |
 Bart Vogel and Special Guest Tim Spencer |
 If you only trust what's visible, you're missing half the show. Macy's Christmas Window Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
 I don't look at music from the standpoint of being a musician; I look at it from the standpoint of being a human being. Herbie Hancock |
 We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark. Whoopi Goldberg |
 Habits are first cobwebs, then cables. Anonymous |
 Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins. Carlos Santana |
 Be humble, for you are made of earth. Be noble, for you are made of stars. Serbian Proverb |
 Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind. Dr. Seuss |
 One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. Bob Marley |
 The quality of your life is determined by the focus of your attention. Cheri Huber |
 Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. Lao Tzu |
 If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. Gustav Mahler |
 Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. John Lennon |
 True beauty emanates from a selfless heart. Cristina Munoz |
 I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. Robert Brault |
 If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you. Henry Rollins |
 Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. Marie Curie |
 Bernie Brooks, Mokelumne River Band |
 For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression. Vladimir Kramnik |
 Poet Monika Rose |
 Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought. Albert Szent-Gyorgi |
 Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world. Archbishop Desmond Tutu |
 It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. Epicurus |
 I’d rather live with a good question than a bad answer. Aryeh Frimer |
 Whenever you fall, pick something up. Oswald Avery |
 The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust |
 Lose your temper and you lose a friend; lie and you lose yourself. American Indian Hopi Saying |
 Dr. Jf (Jose) Cantu, Poet |
 Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission. Eleanor Roosevelt |
 Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. Albert Einstein |
 Never be afraid to sit and think. Lorraine Hansberry |
 I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution. Wernher von Braun |
 Steve Pate, Golden River Riders |
 Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. Chief Seattle, Chief of the Suquamis |
 Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there. Gary Snyder |
 When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God’s business. Flannery O'Connor |
 Every exit is an entry somewhere else. Tom Stoppard |
 The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug. Mark Twain |
 Poet Jim Fox |
 As against having beautiful workshops, studios, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day. Van Wyck Brooks |
 "Are you excavating a subterranean channel?" asked the scholar. "No sir," replied the farmer. "I am only digging a ditch." An old joke. |
 Re-examine all that you have been told. Dismiss that which insults your soul. Walt Whitman |
 A sentence should read as if its author, had he (or she) held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end. Henry David Thoreau |
 We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so. B. B. King |
 Poet Linda Field |
 Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well. Vincent van Gogh |
 Be yourself if you ever hope to be somebody. Anonymous |
 Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolstoy |
 Poet Vince Lake |
 Don’t worry about what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive. Howard Thurman |
 Love your enemies. It makes them so damned mad. P.D. East |
 Each person has unique virtues; look for them. Blanche Tipton |
 D.B. Pacini introducing Haywired Band. |
 Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue. Plato |
 Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once. Robert Browning |
 Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Berthold Auerbach |
 I have learned a great deal from listening. Most people never listen. Ernest Hemingway |
 Johnny Cash’s face belongs on Mount Rushmore. Kris Kristofferson |
 Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. Charles Richards |
 Each of us is part of the problem or part of the solution. Anonymous |
 Always remember that you’re unique. Just like everyone else. Anonymous |
 Practice makes perfect, so be careful what you practice. Anonymous |
 Know your game. Put in the time. And, when you go after your goal, convince yourself that you’re the best. It works. An average talent can be an above average performer. Paraphrased from Joan Ryan Columnist, San Francisco Examiner |
 As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed. Vincent van Gogh |
 None of us is as smart as all of us. Anonymous |
 If both of us thought alike, one of us would not be necessary. Anonymous |
 I choose to rise up out of that storm and see that in moments of desperation, fear, and helplessness, each of us can be a rainbow of hope, doing what we can to extend ourselves in kindness and grace to one another. And I know for sure that there is no them, there's only us. Oprah Winfrey |
 Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. William Shakespeare |
 My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am. Author Unknown |
 I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive. Gilda Radner |
 Your life may be the only Bible some people read. Author Unknown |
 Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. George Bernard Shaw |
 Wine is bottled poetry. Robert Louis Stevenson |
 The pause is as important as the note. Truman Fisher |
 Goodness is the only investment which never fails. Henry David Thoreau |
 Music isn't just learning notes and playing them. You learn notes to play to the music of your soul. Katie Greenwood |
 You weren't put on this earth to be ordinary. Author Unknown |
 Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music. Gioacchino Antonio Rossini |
 ROSE & ERNIE OUR SWEETHEART DANCERS |
 One may live without bread, not without roses. Jean Richepin |
 Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body. Oliver Wendell Holmes |
 You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event, it is a habit. Aristotle |
 Surrender your whole being into a note, and gravity disappears. With one chord, John Lee Hooker could tell you a story as deep as the ocean. Carlos Santana |
 Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains. Paul Whiteman |
 I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. Agatha Christie |
 You could listen to Woody Guthrie songs and actually learn how to live. Bob Dylan |
 Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory. Betty Smith |
 Haywired Band with Special Guest Guitarist/Songwriter Tamara Phelan |
 Music is the art of thinking with sounds. Jules Combarieu |
 Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks, and invents. Ludwig van Beethoven |
 I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality. H. A. Overstreet |
 Without music, life would be a mistake. Friedrich Nietzsche |
 Music is an outburst of the soul. Frederick Deluis |
 Proofread carefully to see if you any words out. |
Vincent (Starry Starry Night)
Vincent is a legendary song by musician singer-songwriter
Don McLean. It was written as a tribute
to Dutch post-impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. It is often referred to as Starry Starry
Night, a reference to van Gogh's painting, The Starry Night. |
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