Quotes by Musicians - Page 40

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.
Viggo Mortensen
The mind is left bereft when it is nothing more than a tool of regurgitation.
Corey Taylor
want to live like there's no tomorrow. Love like I'm on borrowed time. It's good to be alive." ~ Musician Jason Gray
Jason Gray
when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?'I decided I'm going to live---or at least try to live---the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure.
Mitch Albom
And baby, the way you move me it's crazy
Ray Lamontagne
I knew that my trauma, no matter what it was, was not unique. I knew that pain was the universal driving force of so many people—I knew that only in the details was it specific, and I just found it urgent to cut right to the chase and get right to the point.
Lydia Lunch
Remember, you are different than anyone else for a reason. A good reason. Find that reason and run with it.
Tay Jardine
When things go wrong, don't go with them.
Elvis Presley
I knew the legends of the birds. Seagulls were the souls of dead soldiers. Owls were the souls of women. Doves were the recently departed souls of unmarried girls.Was there a bird for the souls of people like me?
Ruta Sepetys
The dominant myth of the day seemed to be that anybody could do anything, even go to the moon. You could do whatever you wanted -in the ads and in the articles, ignore your limitations, defy them. If you were an indecisive person, you could become a leader and wear lederhosen. If you were a housewife, you could become a glamour girl with rhinestone sunglasses. Are you slow witted? No worries -you can be an intellectual genius. If you're old, you can be young. Anything was possible. It was almost like a war against the self.
Bob Dylan
To erase the possibility of empathy is to erase the possibility of understanding.To erase the possibility of empathy is also to erase the possibility of art. Theater, fiction, horror stories, love stories. This is what art does. Good or bad, it imagines the insides, the heart of the other, whether that heart is full of light or trapped in darkness.
Amanda Palmer
I always listen to what I can leave out.
Miles Davis
The older I get, the better I was.
Van Dyke Parks
A big group of daily friends or a white painted house with bills and mirrors, are not a necessity to me—but an intelligent conversation while sharing another coffee, is.
Charlotte Eriksson
I see love, like art, as an obsession. Maybe that's an overly romantic view of human existence, but I'm an overly romantic human being. If love, like rock and roll, doesn't consume me 24-7, it's not love. It can be respect, appreciation, admiration, wonderment, it can be a world of glory and a lifetime of peace, but I can't call it love. Love burns me and confuses me. Love's a light that can't be extinguished.
Scott Weiland
The nights were mainly made for saying things you can't say tomorrow day.
Arctic Monkeys
Once you have some yes's in your life, the no's are not that bad.
RZA
It's a breath you took too late.It's a death that's worse than fate.
Elvis Costello
Music felt married to place, and the notion of "somewhere" predated the Internet's seeming invention of "everywhere" (which often ends up feeling like "nowhere").
Carrie Brownstein
People who think animals have expressionless faces are like people who can ignore an open package of Oreos. Not quite human.
Julia Kent
I feel as though, if I were to extend my hand just a little toward the pool where the ideas ferment, I could grab at the idea and pull it out of the pool and onto the floor where ideas must stand before the jury of the brain. There, it must present itself, still from the pool, and a bit shivery because new ideas are not given a towel to dry off with, towels being reserved for proven theories; new ideas are simply pulled and stood up, and asked to explain themselves - not a very pleasant thing really, which is why so many people go into the room where the pool is. The exercise is exhausting not to mention a bit difficult to watch, if you are at all a sympathetic creature. What was my idea, anyways?
Emilie Autumn
Talk about a dream,try to make it real
Bruce Springsteen
You know the games I play And the words I say When I want my own way You know the lies I tell When you've gone through hell And I say I can't stay You know how hard it can be To keep believing in me When everything and everyone Becomes my enemy and when There's nothing more you can do I'm gonna blame it on you It's not the way I want to be I only hope that in the end you will see It's the Opheliac in me
Emilie Autumn
I don't care how impossible it seems.
David Byrne
Be Positive is not just a blood type.
Del Suggs
Full of beautiful grace so we steal their space, and death comes quickly.
Sara Quin
We are born to believe We can’t change a thing We can’t, and we never could. But before you believe The things you believeYou must understand To be understood.
John C. O’Callaghan
You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
Paul Simon
They think I’m simpleminded because I seem to be happy. Why shouldn’t I be happy? I have everything I ever wanted and more. Maybe I am simpleminded. Maybe that’s the key: simple.
Dolly Parton
Can a mere song change a people's minds? I doubt that it is so. But a song can infiltrate your heart and the heart may change your mind.
Elvis Costello
Let's make justice a process, not an afterthought
Simon Tam
It grey louder. Louder. They were singing, singing at the top of their lungs. Andrius joined, and then my brother and the gray-haired man. And finally, the bald man joined in, singing out national anthem. 'Lithuania, land of heroes...
Ruta Sepetys
Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear which remains unsatisfied and even uneasy until it hears something better.
Charles Burney
A leader’s first duty is to look after his or her people, especially those who are sick, hungry, or thirsty.
Michael Monroe
We are caught in the in between of what we already are what we are yet to be.
Tenth Avenue North
I rode an elevator with a guy who was whistling the tune of 'this is the song that never ends'. Putting that on me? Come on dude..
Taylor Swift
None of us can undo what we've done, or relive a life already recorded. But, ... there is no such thing as "too late" in life.
Mitch Albom
Anita felt like she finally understood why love was symbolized by the grotesque pumping organ, always threatening to clog, or break, or attack. Because the heart was the body's engine, and love was an act of the body. Your mind could tell you who to hate or respect or envy, but only your body--your nostrils and your mouth and the wide, blank canvas of your skin--could tell you who to love.
Tommy Wallach
Say you were split, you were split in fragments and none of the pieces would talk to you. Wouldn't you want to be who you had been? Well, maybe I'd want that too.
Aimee Mann
Be yourself, don't take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive.
Gerard Way
We all have same beginning (BIRTH), and we will have same ending (DEATH). So how different can we be?
Mitch Albom
He cried when I left, which I find to be standard male behavior.
Emilie Autumn
Life is just so interesting and complicated and beautiful. Every day, every interaction is different. There’s so much floating around that I would find it really hard to get bored. I’m interested in creating in some way or another, whether it’s photography or writing or just walking through the world.
Alejandro Escovedo
It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.
Mitch Albom
The future is uncertain but the end is always near.
Jim Morrison
I don't know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that anyone can make - pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad - but it carries a certain taste of memory.
Mitch Albom
Packed up the Dylan and the Man Ray and the JoyceI left a note that said well I guess I got no choiceScuse me girl while I'm kicking it to the curbLeaving with all I need but less than I deserve
Walter Becker
If the bombs go off the sun will still be shining, because I've heard it said thatevery mushroom cloud has a silver lining.
Adam Young Owl City Cave In
We incline to see history through the lives of great men. That inclination blinds us to the real complexity …
John Kay
Music is like a psychiatrist. You can tell your guitar things that you can't tell people. And it will answer you with things people can't tell you.
Paul McCartney
They have a baby grand piano, but no one in the family plays. They have shelves of books they've never read, and the tension between the couples was so thick it nearly choked us.
Ruta Sepetys
We didn't need light & shade, irony or humor. An iconic Daltrey bellow could convey an extrodinary range of human emotion; withering sadness, self pity, loneliness, abandonment, spiritual desperation, the loss of childhood, as well as the more obvious rage & frustration, joy & triumph.
Pete Townshend
Oh what force on earth could be weaker than the feeble strength of one" like me remembering the way it could have been. Help me with this barricade. No surrender. No defeat. A spectre's haunting Albert Street. I am your pamphleteer.
John K. Samson
When people say "it's always the last place you look". Of course it is. Why would you keep looking after you've found it?
Billy Connolly
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
John Lennon
Within each of us there is an Owl, a Rabbit, an Eeyore, and a Pooh. For too long, we have chosen the way of Owl and Rabbit. Now, like Eeyore, we complain about the results. But that accomplishes nothing. If we are smart, we will choose the way of Pooh. As if from far away, it calls to us with the voice of a child's mind. It may be hard to hear at times, but it is important just the same, because without it, we will never find our way through the forest.
Benjamin Hoff
She was Black before it was fashionable to be Black.
Gil Scot-Herron
People often belittle the place where they were born but heaven can be found in the most unlikely places.
Mitch Albom
You smoked another cigarette and we shared another coffee and it was just another morning that made me realise that this is all it takes to be happy.
Charlotte Eriksson
As long as one keeps searching the answers come.
Joan Baez