The Sound of Building Coffins Quotes

“Starting over is a funny thing. You only get one true start, on the day you are born. But as we get older and know better about the lives we’ve lived, every once in awhile we try to make ourselves a new beginning. Problem is that you can’t erase where you come from, the accumulation of your experience being undeniably who you are.  Ain’t no one can be rebirthed out of a past that has come to define them, no matter if these things come by chance or design. You can only pretend to start again; never to forget, try as you might.”
― Louis Maistros, The Sound of Building Coffins

“Real truth is common knowledge in the world of living men. Men only get to asking about it when they have a hard time accepting what they already know.”
― Louis Maistros, The Sound of Building Coffins

“Medicine, to produce health, must examine disease, and music, to create harmony, must examine discord.” —Plutarch Book One New Orleans 1891”
― Louis Maistros, The Sound of Building Coffins

“But with change comes clarity. And with clarity comes understanding. And with understanding comes questions. And with questions of this kind comes a sort of madness.”
― Louis Maistros, The Sound of Building Coffins

“Like a hurricane party or a jazz funeral, an embrace of some fast-coming and brilliantly inevitable (if unjust) end, an open invitation to the last and wildest party on earth,”
― Louis Maistros, The Sound of Building Coffins

“Things remembered are sometimes more real than what a person holds in his hand.”
― Louis Maistros, The Sound of Building Coffins