Avner Strauss



Avner Strauss (born 5 November 1954) is an Israeli poet, singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

Quotes

 * The blind man sits in the dark, but for guests he turns on the light.
 * 12 Years Before Now, In Jerusalem, the Skies are Lower (1991).


 * If the Blues were wine, I'd be drunk all the time.
 * If the Blues Were Wine, 1/2 Precent Blues (1995).


 * In Jerusalem, the skies are closer.
 * In Jerusalem, the Skies are Lower.


 * If you count the thorns, the flower disappears.
 * The Rains, Anyhow.


 * If I had plenty, I'd be content with what I have.
 * If I Were a Cat.


 * In Jerusalem, even the silence speaks. In Jerusalem, the Skies are Lower
 * (1989).
 * Mama Rhino cries out loud, his nose is always the issue, every time he wipes his nose, he rips apart the tissue.
 * Friends of the Rhino (2005).


 * Words flow under a bridge of silence.
 * A Song For You (1980).
 * Rain was the nemesis of the snow, and the snow for the flowers. I Answer as if Someone Really Meant to Ask, Birds of the Mind and Chameleons of the Heart (1978).


 * Dry bones make good flutes
 * The Hollow Flute, from "Voices Within The Ark"  Howard Schwartz, Jewish Poets, [ISBN 978-0380761098].


 * Inside every widow there's a spider that weaves it's webs in the corners of her heart.
 * "Voices Within the Ark", ibid.


 * So many lovers, yet there is no love.
 * Birds of the Mind and Chameleons of the Heart (1978).
 * To bend down for money is OK, but to bow is not.


 * Introduction to Money, Power, and Honor, In Jerusalem, the Skies are Lower (1989).


 * Once, my wife would make me coffee. These days, she hardly puts the kettle on.
 * Distance and other Measures (1994).


 * when a fool fails he says I was unlucky, when a wise man fails he says what a fool I had been. Song "If I was a Cat" live version.
 * (2003 Blues Festival)


 * When you have a full bouquet you can't sit back and smell each flower.
 * Artist Pages.


 * The mind is like a sea, few are those who dare sail, most stand on the shore and watch. Artist pages. (A.S.)
 *  The Blues is an acoustic tear.
 * (on his Album "Blues Haor Haganuz")
 *  A cup of kindness is better than a whole bottle of mercy can be.
 * ( Song )

Dialogues
From "Distance and other Measures", Don from Mars/ Somebody's Crazy and it Ain't Me.
 * Dr.Lindenstrauss: So tell me Don, why don't you go back there?
 * Don: Are you nuts? If I go back to Mars, and tell them that I came from Earth, they would put me straight in an insane asylum.