Chronically Quotes

"I don`t see much truth in laurels, period. The forces of habit make you go on. There`s an internal engine that`s been running since I was 14; I keep an ear out to see if it`s still purring and it is. It chronically purrs. Music making is who you are and it doesn`t go away. If you love to play music, you`re lucky."

My voice has gotten deeper and it`s all down to when I was living in Australia. I could speak and only barely sing. Deep down I knew that something was chronically wrong with my voice. It was polyps. The first thing the doctor said to me, "You smoke a lot of dope, don`t you?" I gasped and said, "How do you know?" The doctor said, "I can tell by the way you`re talking. If you`re a singer, the worse thing you can do is smoke dope." We did the operation in Australia and it lowered the timbre of my voice. It`s deeper, has more resonance and it`s stronger. I used to be a piano player who sang and now I`m a singer who plays piano.

We know well and we know chronically ill, but there is a whole bunch of gray in between where I think we can heal people before they become chronically sick. I believe our thoughts make us sick.

This woman was chronically sick and her family called us for help during the storm, but we couldn`t put a vehicle on the roads, ... After the winds died down, there was no way to get to her because Highway 15 where she lived was blocked by fallen trees.

Chronically homeless means constantly homeless; it means repeatedly homeless.

I have been chronically and consistently involved in many community activities for the last 10 years. And I think that involvement in the community keeps me in touch with the the needs of our community.