“There were patterns in my family that had to be broken, and I refused ...” — Ivan Moody Quote

“There were patterns in my family that had to be broken, and I refused to live my life the way certain members of my family had.”

“There were millions of people who could've given up on me at any given moment, and they didn't, and so that, to me, it's the world and more.”

“I've never played instruments. I've always been a singer or a writer, for that matter. But I started playing in bands when I was sixteen years old.”

“Well I guess my music came to prominence around one piece called 'In C' which I wrote in 1964 at that time it was called 'The Global Villages for Symphonic Pieces', because it was a piece built out of 53 simple patterns and the structure was new to music at that time.”

“But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard.”

“The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or a town - the more it comes to life as an entirety, the more it glows, the more it has that self-maintaining fire which is the quality without a name.”