Quotes by Musicians - Page 18

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. Ain't nowhere else in the world where you can go from driving a truck to cadillac overnight
Elvis Presley
There's a lot of beauty to be found in sadness and melancholia. One of the things that you find time and time again - not just with music, but with literature - is that things that appear to be quite depressing on the surface can ironically be very uplifting and touching to other people. When you hear something that really reminds you that you're not alone in feeling sad, depressed, melancholic, angry - I think that can actually be a very cathartic experience.
Steven Wilson
Now as through this world I ramble I see lots of funny men Some rob you with a six gun Some with a fountain pen.
Woody Guthrie
You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.
Mitch Albom
I never could read Foucault. I find philosophy tedious. All of my knowledge comes from reading novels and some history. I read Being and Nothingness and realized that I remembered absolutely nothing when I finished it. I used to go to the library every day and read every day for eight hours. I’d dropped out of high school and had to teach myself. I read Sartre without any background. I just forced myself and I learned nothing.
Michael Gira
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
Albert Schweitzer
And we pray, and we pray and we pray and we pray.Everyday, everyday, everyday, everyday…
Bone Thugs and Harmony
Around this world will I be enough?From the liquor stores, to the train stop floors, your filthy room, your drama bluesI am nothing if I'm not with you.
Sara Quin
Memories are not in places, Papa. Memories are in your mind. They're here, too.
Mitch Albom
They listen to the music of idiots and amuse themselves with the sordid miseries of their businesses. They are not the things of angels or of any higher outpost that humanity might aspire to. Your loathsome vomitous businessman king is of the lowest order, his advisors crumbling mockeries of education driven by avarice. My love, dress them in the suits of mockery, and in their advanced state of stupidity and senility, burn and destroy them, so their ashes might join the compost which they so much deserve.
Lou Reed
He wrapped his arms around me and planted a kiss straight on my lips, hard and long. It felt like I was watching the kiss instead of being inside of it.
Ruta Sepetys
And this is what being an artist means, being a poet? To sacrifice yourself for your art, sacrifice your heart for your art, because it’s only through something broken that something beautiful can grow.
Charlotte Eriksson
Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.
Gil Scott-Heron
You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind.
Yoko Ono
Rock & roll is so great, people should start dying for it. You don't understand. The music gave you back your beat so you could dream...The people just have to die for the music. People are dying for everything else, so why not for music? Die for it. Isn't it pretty? Wouldn't you die for something pretty?
Lou Reed
Golden eagles don`t mate with bald eagles, deer don`t mate with antelope, gray wolves don`t mate with red wolves. Just look at domesticated animals, at mongrel dogs, and mixed breed horses, and you`ll know the Great Mystery didn`t intend them to be that way. We weakened the species and introduced disease by mixing what should be kept seperate. Among humans, intermarriage weakens the respect people have for themselves and for their traditions. It undermines clarity of spirit and mind.
Russell Means
Nothing was working, and my friend was dead, and I didn't want to look at that.
Anthony Kiedis
Per aspera ad astra, Papa,' I whispered. Through hardship to the stars.
Ruta Sepetys
I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.
Flavor Flav
I suppose we were better observers than communicators; we were all subjects to be worried over, complained about, even adored, but never quite people to be held or loved. There was an intellectual, almost absurd distance.
Carrie Brownstein
You kissed me that morning as if you’d never done it before and never would again and now I write another letter that I will never dare to send, collecting memories of loss like chains tight around my chest,and if you see a fire from the shore tonightit’s my chains going up in flames.
Charlotte Eriksson
All that we can't say is all we need to hear.
Ben Harper
When you are at a loss of words then go with your feelings. If you feel nothing you must rely on your thinking. If your thinking is not clear then lean on the spirit. With Spirit you cannot go wrong!
James Brown
And the rain drops kept falling like the sweetest musicleaving tears on the glass,which is what music does to memost of the timebut silence too. and rain.
Charlotte Eriksson
Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me.
Mitch Albom
Are you okay?” someone asked.t“I’m fine,” I snapped, turning to face Jayden Griffin.t“I have to admit, you’re getting better at lying, Tess Embers,” he said quietly. “However, I know you’re not okay.
Embee
Left hand path magick is generally socially unacceptable.
Nikolas Schreck
It matters just as much what to do, whether people hate you or love you
Ethel Lilian Voynich
I believe in Jesus Christ. He said deny me in front of your friends & I will deny you in front of my father.
Werley Nortreus
I'm not going to limit myself just because some people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.
Dolly Parton
I no longer know the author of this book, for simply stopping long enough and writing it down was where I changed from a boy with his eyes squeezed shut to a man with his eyes wide open so that the sunlight might reach my heart despite all that darkness.
Ryan Adams
Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.
Mitch Albom
I am so much happier when I am doing the things that make me me, and that's living by my standards and doing the things I love, using my talents, however random they are, to share with other people. That's what makes me happy.
Lindsey Stirling
Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another.
Mitch Albom
I'll Die For Your Sins If You Live For mine.
Jim Carroll
Stop crying to the ocean, stop crying over me. Stop worrying over nothing, stop worrying over me. So it's been so long since you said, well I know what I want and what I want's right here with you.
Tegan Quin
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with 10 000 people. The hardest is with one.
Joan Baez
If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled business. Our words will always be sincere, our embraces will be tight. We will never wallow in the agony of ‘I could have, I should have’. We can sleep in a storm. And when its time, our goodbyes will be complete.
Mitch Albom
If I could be anywhere, where would I be?
Tom Felton
Maybe we were together in another life...in a parallel universe, maybe our paths are not supposed to cross twice, maybe your arms are not supposed to go around me. I hear about you now & then, I wonder where you are & how you feel. Sometimes I walk by & I look up to your balcony, just to make sure you were real-just to make sure that I can still feel you...it appears to me that Destiny Rules...
Stevie Nicks
Who is so fancy, esoterica saves the day?Who is the Yogi, Namaste?
Kristen Henderson
Kundalini means, according to Zeena ‘She Who is Hidden,’ and points to the dormant goddess in every human being’s body. While the kundalini force is found in muladharachakra, she hypnotizes humans, like maya herself, and renders them slaves to the illusory. Kundalini can only awaken people if she travels up along the spine.'--About Zeena Schreck by Malin Fitger 'Contemporary notions of Kundalini, its background and role within new Western religiosity,' University of Stockholm, 2004
Zeena Schreck
I don't want to be in love but you're makin' me
Jonny Lang
Do you ever get the feeling that when you show someone your affection for them, you are assaulting them? Like you should probably leave them alone? Your affection, no matter how sincere, does not necessarily mean a damn thing to the person you are giving it to. Love can corner you. When you intrude on someone with your affection, you might find yourself trying to knock a strong door down with your shoulder. Either you break the door or you break yourself. Something almost always gets broken. In my mind it runs like this: I’m going to like you, whether you like it or not. I’ll wear you down until you relent and swallow this big lie I have for you. Don’t move. Don’t live. I love you.
Henry Rollins
ALS is like a lit candle: it melts your nerves and leaves your body a pile of wax.. you cannot support yourself standing.. you cannot sit up straight. By the end, if you are still alive.. your soul, perfectly awake, is imprisoned inside a limp husk.. like something from a science fiction movie, the man frozen inside his own flesh.
Mitch Albom
Ever hear a song you love so much you wanna break sh*t?
Juliet Simms
The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.
Mitch Albom
Don't be a drag.Just be a queen.
Lady Gaga
When your girlfriend broke your heart, don't even say a word, just smile because she gives you the opportunity to find someone better than her.
Werley Nortreus
The tragedy in a man’s life is what dies inside of him while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer
I knew that (job) had to be a humbling role for my dad, but he never allowed it to become humiliating work.
Jeremy Camp
The only performance that makes it, that makes it all the way is the one that achieves madness.
Mick Jagger
Life is like a boxing match, keep on throwing those punches and one of them will land.Kevin Lane - The Shawshank Prevention
Ken Scott
Stars are attributed w/ intelligence they don't have, beauty they haven't worked for, loyaly & love they are incapable of reciprocating, and strength they do not possess. They are treated like a beautiful vase of cut flowers. When wilted, simply replaced w/ new blooms.
Pete Townshend
Miracles happen quietly every day—in an operating room, on a stormy sea, in the sudden appearance of a roadside stranger. They are rarely tallied. No one keeps score.But now and then, a miracle is declared to the world.And when that happens, things change
Mitch Albom
And by the way, if I always tell you the truth, you might start to believe me.
Victor L. Wooten
The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth.
Marilyn Manson
Yes, confidence was knowing I could do anything. But, I realized, confidence must always be rooted in work. In sweat. In pain-good pain. And in honesty.
Duff McKagan
Slow motion gets you there faster.
Hoagy Carmichael
I'm not ashamed to dress "like a woman" because I don't think it's shameful to be a woman.
Iggy Pop