“I liked your art [writing/music/acting/whatever] until you got political.” PEOPLE: ALL ART IS POLITICAL. All art is , at its core, an expression of personal values, of how the artist sees the world and his/her/their hopes and dreams for it. (1/4)

“…that primal need to express what it feels like when the rest of the world drops away and all that exists in the entire universe is you, and the music. It’s a moment worth remembering, and celebrating, and sharing with anyone who will listen.” – MY HEART SINGS THE HARMONY, p. 10 buff.ly/PjxlviK

“Heroes teach us that there is courage in simple persistence, and that the best part of ourselves is always within our grasp.” – THE REMEMBERING, p. 113

“Something in your father always wanted to move on. To focus on the present and future, and leave the past behind. I imagine it helped him to make his way through life, but…” – HOME WAS A DREAM, p. 48

“I had no designs on the life of a drifter, but I nonetheless felt myself growing vigilant against the creeping forces that were beginning to draw me to them like a salmon taking that final swim upstream.” – NEVER BREAK THE CHAIN, p. 13

“I was standing at the edge of an enormous stage in the middle of a vast stadium on the edge of the colossal bay, tasting the tangy salt air... while five strangers made a sound together that had brought me to the brink of tears.” – BELIEVE IN ME, p. 29 buff.ly/FhmCAyV

"Life's most persistent and urgent question is: 'What are you doing for others?'" - Martin Luther King Jr.

THE ADVENTURES OF LUCCA AND TIRAH took on a fresh dimension as the story itself came together—a gentle tale about fear of the unknown and the challenges of making friends, that’s also an allegory about prejudice. www.jasonwarburg.com/about-the-ad...

“Love, loss, work & responsibility barely made a dent in our collective consciousness during the first two years we spent together, as sophomores & juniors, just old enough to drive & just young enough not to be focused on the road ahead.” – MY HEART SINGS THE HARMONY, p. 7 buff.ly/PjxlviK

“…(whatever form of art you're making)...You are inventing a reality for your audience to inhabit, & populating it with color & form & emotion designed to foster connection among art, artist, and audience… stories have power; they convince us to care.” – THE REMEMBERING, p. 109 buff.ly/mqXBMGd

“Your whole life you tell yourself a story about who you are and what your life consists of, and then one day you wake up and the story has changed. Some days I feel great and some days I feel… unmoored.”– HOME WAS A DREAM, p. 46 www.jasonwarburg.com/about-home-w...

“The revealed eye opened, dark brown and full of brilliant mischief, tracked over to find Jane, then followed her bemused gaze to me. Assessed the situation for a moment. And winked.” – NEVER BREAK THE CHAIN, p. 8 www.jasonwarburg.com/never-break-...

“I had been here before many times, lost in a song, letting it lift me into its rhythms, inviting the singer to express for me those things I couldn’t find the words to say.” – BELIEVE IN ME, p. 28 www.jasonwarburg.com/about-believ...

Reminder: hope you'll check out my interview with singer-songwriter Bill See, who’s had a fascinating journey as a solo artist, author, and frontman of the amazing Divine Weeks. We got into it! dailyvault.com/article.php5...

“[T]here is no plan, and never has been. What there has been, is a series of instances of wanting to write something and share it with an audience, and then stumbling forward from there like a blind elephant with a trick knee.” www.jasonwarburg.com/stumbling-fo...

“In my memories, the irregular rhythms of our at-times tumultuous household were punctuated by moments of pure musical bliss, and I bathed in those beams of light like a sun-drunk kitten.” – MY HEART SINGS THE HARMONY, p. 7 www.jasonwarburg.com/heart-sings-...

“That person who gets it; that’s what this is all about. That’s why we do what we do as creators, the lonely, frustrating, endlessly fraught work of turning an idea... into a moment that speaks in mysterious language to someone else’s innermost self.” – THE REMEMBERING, p. 107 buff.ly/mqXBMGd

“The blessing and the curse of growing closer to Ruth was that nothing got by her. I wondered briefly if this was what therapy felt like—talking with someone who appeared to know you better than you knew yourself.” – HOME WAS A DREAM, p. 46

“The gentle leftward arc of the staircase carved a high, curving wall on which were displayed a series of electric guitars. A sleek, cherry-red Fender Stratocaster. A flashy turquoise flying V with a glittery finish. A full-bodied, golden Gibson ES335…” – NEVER BREAK THE CHAIN, p. 5 buff.ly/lQHvVjB

“...the grandstands rose like castle walls, their steep aisles leading past uncountable banks of fixed seats… An image flickered in my mind of the Colosseum, filled with sandal-clad ancients in white robes, gathered to watch gladiators, & Christians, & lions.” – BELIEVE IN ME, p. 27 buff.ly/FFjDAx8

Had a great conversation with singer-songwriter Bill See recently, covering his recent solo album Bow To No One, his memoir 33 Days, and his years fronting indie favorites Divine Weeks. Enjoy! dailyvault.com/article.php5...

“I knew I wanted to write a story that captured the personalities of the cats my grandkids had known. It wasn’t until I had developed the character dynamics that I began working the roots of prejudice—fear of the unknown—into the storyline.” www.montereyherald.com/2024/12/22/l...

“When it comes to talking about art, objectivity is a unicorn; you might convince yourself it exists, but good luck ever locating it.” – MY HEART SINGS THE HARMONY, p. 2 buff.ly/IfIjBJQ

“If the song, or the story, has done its job, then somewhere inside of it you’ve felt some flash of recognition, some echo within yourself of what the [creator] is attempting to say. That inimitable moment of insight & connection—that’s where art happens.” – THE REMEMBERING, p. 104

“I was inferring things from context & knowledge that simply felt right, regardless. And isn’t that the essence of memory? Real events, refracted through prisms of perception & emotion & imperfect observation, spiked with conjecture & wishful thinking?” – HOME WAS A DREAM, p. 46

“Sure, mate, sure. You can think about it until five o’clock tomorrow afternoon. If you aren’t standing in Blake Saunders’ living room by then, you can go ahead and lose my number.” – NEVER BREAK THE CHAIN, p. 4 www.jasonwarburg.com/never-break-...

“My dad had a theory about fame. He said that becoming famous amplifies a person’s essence. If they’re touchy, they become temperamental; if they’re introverted, they become inaccessible; if they’re arrogant, they become little Napoleons.” – BELIEVE IN ME, p. 25 buff.ly/FFjDAx8

"You do the best you can and you deal with the consequences. It's all there is. " -- Robert B. Parker / A Catskill Eagle

THE ADVENTURES OF LUCCA AND TIRAH took on a fresh dimension as the story itself came together—a gentle tale about fear of the unknown and the challenges of making friends, that’s also an allegory about prejudice. www.jasonwarburg.com/about-the-ad...

“On special occasions when I’ve done my job well, I may also have the privilege of assisting the artist and the audience in achieving the only goal that really matters in art—connection. A shared moment of communication.” – MY HEART SINGS THE HARMONY, p. 2

“These moments—the moments when reality itself seems to swirl & bend into a kind of hyper-reality, when for just a split-second you can feel the charge of every ion in every molecule in the room—these moments are where stories come from.” – THE REMEMBERING, p. 97 buff.ly/Zwgm3BG

“Despite being a couple of inches shorter than me—around five-eleven—he took up infinitely more space in the room.” – NEVER BREAK THE CHAIN, p. 1 www.jasonwarburg.com/never-break-...

“By that point the morning’s proceedings had gathered a certain irrefutable momentum; I had been drawn into Jordan Lee’s gravitational field like a foundering fragment of cosmic debris yanked off course by a comet.” – BELIEVE IN ME, p. 23 www.jasonwarburg.com/about-believ...

“[T]here is no plan, and never has been. What there has been, is a series of instances of wanting to write something and share it with an audience, and then stumbling forward from there like a blind elephant with a trick knee.” www.jasonwarburg.com/stumbling-fo...

“My job is to narrate my experience as a listener, to explain how the work was received on my end, which buttons it pushed and which it didn’t… I do what I do because I love music, not criticizing those who make it.” – MY HEART SINGS THE HARMONY, p. 2 www.jasonwarburg.com/heart-sings-...

“…faith is a subject you can’t sidestep. You can only pose the questions we all face at some point, and try to make sure your characters answer them as honestly as they can.” – THE REMEMBERING, p. 95 www.jasonwarburg.com/about-the-re...

“And then he turned, swiped his cigarettes off the arm of his chair, stomped to the back door, wrenched it open, stepped through, and slammed it back shut behind him, leaving his children to sift through the wreckage as their mother sank to her knees.” – HOME WAS A DREAM, p. 44

“I’d been yelled at by plenty of powerful men, but Blake Saunders was the first I could recall who, within five minutes of meeting me, threatened in matter-of-fact tones to tear me into bite-sized chunks and throw them into the Malibu surf.” – NEVER BREAK THE CHAIN, p. 1 buff.ly/OF5fLxj

“I’d personally witnessed a polling consultant getting run out the door by the candidate one afternoon, only to find him sitting in our conference room again the next morning with a fresh double-latte in his hand like nothing had happened.” – BELIEVE IN ME, p. 21 www.jasonwarburg.com/about-believ...

In times like these, we could all use a break. Here’s my contribution: a headlong stage dive into the “Best Of 2025” in the world of music.

“I knew I wanted to write a story that captured the personalities of the cats my grandkids had known. It wasn’t until I had developed the character dynamics that I began working the roots of prejudice—fear of the unknown—into the storyline.” www.montereyherald.com/2024/12/22/l...

“Artists pour themselves into their craft, investing not just dollars and hours, but deep personal truths that animate and give dimension to their creations. The critic then ‘cracks open’ the artist’s creation and describes what s/he finds inside.” – MY HEART SINGS THE HARMONY, p. 1 buff.ly/yCLMQPS

“The subtext of these pieces is how much the act of writing was giving back to me. When we truly invest ourselves in it, writing becomes a means of untying the knots in our own backstory.” – THE REMEMBERING, p. 82

“He was waving his hands through the air as he spoke now, as if conducting music only he could hear, the Dragon in full flight.” – HOME WAS A DREAM, p. 42 www.jasonwarburg.com/about-home-w...

“Family is a mirror. In every person you see some reflection of yourself, whether close or distant, clear or distorted. Family is your every flaw, and moment of grace, revealed back to you.” – NEVER BREAK THE CHAIN, Prologue www.jasonwarburg.com/never-break-...

“…the details were lost in the fog of 300 artist profiles and 3,000 album reviews, my father’s Don Quixote-ish legacy, a virtual critical encyclopedia of a creative genre many still can’t conceive of as art.” – BELIEVE IN ME, p. 19 www.jasonwarburg.com/about-believ...

“I think losing a presence that big in our lives knocks anyone sideways. It puts us in a reflective mood where we think about the big questions and events in our lives. I responded by doing what comes naturally; I started writing a book.” www.montereyherald.com/2022/01/02/a...

THE ADVENTURES OF LUCCA AND TIRAH took on a fresh dimension as the story itself came together—a gentle tale about fear of the unknown and the challenges of making friends, that’s also an allegory about prejudice. www.jasonwarburg.com/about-the-ad...

“When these moments arrive, the world disappears, because the emotional experience these artists are conveying to me on their songs is real, and has the power to transport & transform me in a way that no other art form can.” – MY HEART SINGS THE HARMONY, p. 294 buff.ly/Y69obDz

"Mom and Dad had slowly, tentatively begun to gravitate in each other’s direction. A broad circle of family surrounding them—nearly a dozen children & spouses, & roughly the same number of grandchildren—held its collective breath, elbowing each other & staring" THE REMEMBERING, p. 81 buff.ly/haSIo7w