Avner Strauss

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

Avner Strauss in 2009

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, [[[Special:BookSources/978-0380761098|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.

External links

• Hebrew Wikiquote
• Official Avner Strauss website