Quotes by Musicians - Page 31

At some point they show their true colorsAfter the break upAfter the trial After the contract is signed and brokenTheir true colors stinkThese daysI find it hard to get along with themI want to push them until the colors come out And sometimes I hate them so much, I push and seeI do the same to the ones I likeThe ones I don’t care about I smile at real nice
Henry Rollins
By claiming that our words are too hard to understand, the media perpetuates the idea that WE are too hard to understand, and suggests that there’s no point in trying.
C. N. Lester
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
B.B. King
The boy will grow older, and over time there will be other songs – not many – ten or maybe twenty in a lifespan, that stand apar from the rest of the music he will discover. He will realise as he grows older still, and crosses the Canadian border and drives down into Seattle, that not only are these songs holy or sacred, they are hiding songs – what the Aztec Indians call carrion songs – that deal exclusively in darkness, obfuscation, concealment and secrecy. He will realize that, for him, the purpose of these songs has been to shut off the sun, to draw a long shadow down and protect him from the corrosive glare of the world.
Nick Cave
I was born the same year the greatest automobile in the history of automobiles was created, the 1957 Chevrolet. Thank God only one of us had tail fins.
Michael Buffalo Smith
My friends, 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 it's time, our good-byes will be complete.
Mitch Albom
You used to get it in your fishnetsNow you only get it in your nightdressDiscarded all the naughty nights for niceness......Remeber when the boys were all electric?
Arctic Monkeys
Reality is only a dream, based on values and well worn principles, whereas the dream goes on forever.
Ian Thomas Curtis
Though it's cold and lonely in the deep dark night, I can see paradise by the dashboard light.
Meat Loaf
Society has put up so many boundaries, so many limitations on what’s right and wrong that it’s almost impossible to get a pure thought out. It’s like a little kid, a little boy, looking at colors, and no one told him what colors are good, before somebody tells you you shouldn’t like pink because that’s for girls, or you’d instantly become a gay two-year-old. Why would anyone pick blue over pink? Pink is obviously a better color. Everyone’s born confident, and everything’s taken away from you
Kanye West
Having money isn't everything, not having it is.
Kanye West
Time is the enemy of identity
Michael Moorcock
Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it.
Lady Gaga
Tore up my heart and shut it down. Nothing to do, nowhere to be. A simple little kind of free. Nothing to do, no one but me, and that's all I need. I'm perfectly lonely.
John Mayer
If they don't like you for being yourself, be yourself even more.
Taylor Swift
There are two conversations going on at the same time: the story and a conversation about how the story is being told.
David Byrne
In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live.
Robert James Waller
If your library is not "unsafe," it probably isn't doing its job.
John Berry
Here a tower shining brightOnce stood gleaming in the nightWhere now There's just the rubble in the holefrom "White City
Shane MacGowan
That she made a point to eat only the gristliest chicken bits, the burned biscuits, the mealiest potatoes, while she complained that his children were, variously, weak-minded, hysterical or sickly, and seemed to imply that such afflictions were the result of the lack of a good piece of steak or a new bonnet, was only circumstance; were she installed on a throne at a twelve-course banquet table teaming with all of God's creatures brought from both air and field, trussed and roasted and swimming in their own succulent juices, she would heap her plate with the most exquisite victuals and lament that his feeble offspring were the way they were because they had it too well and what they really needed was a vat of cold porridge and a tureen full of dirt.
Paul Harding
I took a road that wasn't the road, but it was something I chose and that's fine.
Tom Rosenthal
A night of exhilaration, of boredom and terror, in which the merest of sounds took on other forms - grew large in the expanse of darkness. After several hours the sheep gradually stopped calling to each other from accross the river banks, and a brittle quiet descended. I desperately wanted to walk down to the water's edge. To see the black river in the moonlight. But a mixture of reason and fear kept me locked along the safe paths high above.
Richard Skelton
And I remember quiet evenings trembling close to you...
Tom Waits
the word dyting is not synonymous with the word useless
Mitch Albom
I am not a finished poem, and I am not the song you’ve turned me into. I am a detached human being, making my way in a world that is constantly trying to push me aside, and you who send me letters and emails and beautiful gifts wouldn’t even recognise me if you saw me walking down the street where I live tomorrowfor I am not a poem. I am tired and worn out and the eyes you would see would not be painted or inspiredbut empty and weary from drinking too much at all timesand I am not the life of your party who sings and has glorious words to speakfor I don’t speak muchat alland my voice is raspy and unsteady from unhealthy living and not much sleep and I only use it when I sing and I always sing too muchor not at alland never when people are around because they expect poems and symphonies and I am nota poembut an elegyat my bestbut unedited and uncut and not a lot of people want to work with me because there’s only so much you can do with an audio take, with the plug-ins and EQs and I was born distorted, disordered, and I’m pretty fine with that,but others are not.
Charlotte Eriksson
Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.
Greg Anderson
Life is but a short and fevered rehearsal for a concert we cannot stay to give.
stephen christian
The dam of my eyes broke, and tears flooded the land.
James Sallis
There are times when I'm caught up in everything and I have to say to myself, "Please feel good; please feel better; everything's okay; you're fine; things aren't falling apart; take a second; get back to a place where you realize that you don't actually have real problems." That happens. You never know when those tables are gonna turn... For me, confidence is something that can come crashing down in one second.
Taylor Swift
There’s no meaning of life but there is meaning and life, and it’s there waiting for you.
Adam Gnade
Life isn't sugarcoated. Why should coffee be?
Tommy Wallach
The measure of a man lies not in his lengthy accomplishments, but in his decisions when he is faced with the certain, indisputable knowledge that he is going to die.
Mitch Rowland
All I do know is that as we age the weight of our unsorted baggage becomes heavier...much heavier. With each passing year, the price of our refusing to do that sorting rises higher and higher.
Bruce Springsteen
The imagination is precious. Don't lose it. Don't lose the child in you.
Marilyn Manson
It's not the tales of Stephen King that I've read,I need protection from the things in my head . . .
Jimmy Buffett
All these years of thinking, ending up like this: In front of all this beauty, understanding nothing.
Bruce Cockburn
The left-hand path adept seeks to liberate him/herself from passive subjection to the illusory nature of Maya, thus freeing the consciousness from the binds of self-created delusion.
Zeena Schreck
Life's just a cocktail party - on the street.
Mick Jagger
I said ”I love you so much it’s killing me”and you kept saying sorryso I stopped explainingfor it never made sense to youwhat always did to meto let what you love kill youand never regret. As Romeo is dying Juliet says”I am willing to die to remain by your side”and love was never a static place of restbut the last second of euphoriawhile throwing yourself out from a 20 store windowto be able to say”I flew before I hit the ground”,and it was glorious.Don’t be sorry.The fall was beautiful, dear.The crash was beautiful.
Charlotte Eriksson
SUMMER DEEP""Summer deep is in the hills again His lady is a lioness Winds of birds blow through the fields again Invaders from the true worlds A coat of grapes is on my back again I ride upon my zebra Pterodactyl beak hat on my brow The truth is like a stranger Be like you could All my friends say.
Marc Bolan
There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.
Frank Zappa
North Carolina has a monument to [Peter Francisco], and no one knows that. That's the kind of stuff that drives me.
Travis Bowman
The harsh reality is that my flesh must die not so much because of what it does, but because of what it is.
Kelly Minter
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
Tom Waits
I never stop myself from doing something because I’m afraid of what people might think.
Zooey Deschanel
I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours
Bob Dylan
History written in pencil is easily erased, but crayon is forever.
Emilie Autumn
Some things take so longBut how do I explainWhen not too many peopleCan see we're all the sameAnd because of all their tearsYour eyes can't hope to seeThe beauty that surrounds themNow, isn't it a pity
George Harrison
Home is in here [tapping temple]. Where you live is just a geographical preference.
Lemmy Kilmister
I never have time to write anymore. And when I do I only write about how I never have time. It's work and it's money and I've written more lists than songs lately. I stay up all night to do all these things I need to do, be all these things I want to be, playing with shadows in the darkness that shouldn't be able to exist. Empty bottles and cigarettes while watching the sunrise, why do I complain? I have it all, everything I ever asked for.
Charlotte Eriksson
It's a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time.
Ahmir Questlove Thompson
There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly.
Boris Vian
A certain amount of volatility and drama can me healthy and keep things fun and interesting if you're willing at any moment during a fight to say, 'This means nothing. I love you, let's forget about it.
Anthony Kiedis
Never restart a journey and use the same road that failed you before.
Dennis E. Adonis
... And these childrenthat you spit onas they try to change their worldsare immune to your consultations.They're quite awareof what they're going through...
David Bowie
I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain There’s more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line And the less I seek my source for some definitive The closer I am to fine.
Emily Saliers
SOMETIMES WHAT WE WANT BUT CANT GET IT, EVEN WE DO NOT TRY TO GET IT. AT LAST WE SATISFIED JUST FAILURE.
RUPEE
You're so easy to read but the book is boring me.
Emilie Autumn
Bear in mind, children, that they listen to you because you are kids—not because you are right. That's how our Father listens to us.
Rich Mullins
Inconveniently, books are all the pages in them, not just the ones you choose to read.
Don Paterson