Quotes by Musicians - Page 45

In the external scheme of things, shining moments are as brief as the twinkling of an eye, yet such twinklings are what eternity is made of -- moments when we human beings can say "I love you," "I'm proud of you," "I forgive you," "I'm grateful for you." That's what eternity is made of: invisible imperishable good stuff.
Fred Rogers
The older I get, the more I seem to be able to appreciate my "neighbor" (whomever I happen to be with at the moment). Oh, sure, I've always tried to love my neighbor as myself; however, the more experiences I've had, the more chances I've had to see the uniqueness of each person... as well as each tree, and plant, and shell, and cloud... the more I find myself delighting every day in the lavish gifts of God, whom I've come to believe is the greatest appreciator of all.
Fred Rogers
On a whim, he stopped and bought a watch from a sidewalk vendor. Normally, Billy could not abide keeping time, especially when it was attached to one’s body. Time was like a relentlessly needy lapdog one had to haul around. It barked too much and had no sense of loyalty.
Jim Carroll
And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.
Bob Dylan
The purpose of living is living for a purpose.
Ray Price Billy
Aging is scary but fascinating, and great talent morphs in strange and often enlightening ways.
Bruce Springsteen
You are Bellman, aren’t you? The genius who sent the sauna ape after me?” Harry nodded toward the Finn.
Jo Nesbø
Jemma Simmons- I like to think about the first law of thermodynamics, that no energy in the universe is created...Jemma Simmons, Leo Fitz- And none is destroyedJemma Simmons- That means that every bit of energy inside us, every particle, will go on to be a part of something else. Maybe live as a dragonfish, a microbe, maybe burn in a supernova ten billion years from now. And every part of us now was once a part of some other thing- a moon, a storm cloud, a mammoth.Leo Fitz- A monkey.Jemma Simmons- A monkey. Thousands and thousands of other beautiful things that were just as terrified to die as we are. We gave them new life. Good one, I hope.
Jed Whedon
...and all the people said 'What a shame that he's dead, but wasn't he a most peculiar man?
Paul Simon
There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get
Charles de Lint
People don’t choose dreams, dreams choose them. So the question I’m getting to is, do you have the courage to grab the dream that picked you?
Prince Ea
Honor your mistake as a hidden intention.
Brian Eno
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.
John Lennon
You can't speak Music with notes alone, but you can speak Music without notes at all!
Victor L. Wooten
You can quiz me on Petrarch, Medea, Shakespeare or Dante, I know them all, and I’m sorry, but they’ve all gone wrong. Dumb glorified men, writing words about love and life as if they knew. As far as I’m concerned, they didn’t make it out alive either, so I’m sure as hell not going to go to them for advice.
Charlotte Eriksson
Immortal beings have been compared to stars, these are existences that linger on long after the death of the thing itself.
Zeena Schreck
I used to feel like I was drowning. So I stopped trying to swim.
Oliver Sykes
We're not into music. We're into chaos.
Steve Jones
With Bruford, the album was One Of A Kind. All-instrumental, it possessed the kind of focused vision that allowed for no ifs or buts. With the unnerving confidence of youth, it had This Is What We Do And This Is How We Do It stamped all over it.
Bill Bruford
I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink.
Tom Waits
There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. . . . But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope.
Gerard Way
...although the reason for the existence of women is obvious enough, nobody has any real idea what point there is in being a man. Men have however, made many attempts to justify their existence.
Steve Jones
Everywhere I looked, demons of the future [were] on the battlegrounds of one’s emotional plane.
David Bowie
People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with ‘welcome’ written on it.
Andy Partridge
Now the snow's coming down, and im watching it fall. Watching the people around, baby please come home. Pretty lights on a tree, and im watching you shine. You should be here with me! Baby please come home
Josh Ramsay of Marianas Trench
I was astonished by his complete lack of self-pity. Morrie, who could no longer dance, swim, bathe, or walk; Morrie, who could no longer answer his own door, dry himself after a shower, or even roll over in bed. How could he be so accepting? I watched him struggle with a fork, picking at a piece of tomato, missing it the first two times - a pathetic scene, and yet I could not deny that sitting in his presence was almost magically serene, the same calm breeze that soothed me back in college.
Mitch Albom
Liao writes with the courage of a man who knows loss and doesn't fear it. There is nothing to make him notice like an official injunction against noticing, nothing to make him listen like official deafness, nothing that drives him to make us see like the blindness that officialdom seeks to impose.
Liao Yiwu
I am growing old of course, but I am still in the early stages of disintegration, and regarded as just about cool enough by some fashionable young ppl to be permitted to think aloud.
Pete Townshend
Like the New Orleans tradition that preceded it, and the Swing Era offerings that followed it, Chicago jazz was not just the music of a time and place, but also a timeless style of performance - and for its exponents, very much a way of life - one that continues to reverberate to this day in the works of countless Dixieland and traditional jazz bands around the world. For many listeners, the Chicago style remains nothing less than the quintessential sound of jazz.
Ted Gioia
They teach you, as children, that you might go to heaven. They never teach you that heaven might come to you.
Mitch Albom
I think music has the ability to inspire people and to change hearts, and the heart has the power to change the mind, and the mind has the power to change the world.
Serj Tankian
No one here is allowed to die without my permission.
Doug MacLeod
In Jazz, like in America, the group works together toward a common cause with lots of room left for each individual to shine.
Richie Gerber
Reality is infinitely complex, yet it is designed to experience in simplicity.
Guy Lozier
All war will end when women cease to find men in uniforms attractive - discuss.
Bill Drummond
When there's no stimulus to be found on the outside, you have no option but to look inside yourself for inspiration, and when I did it set off a creativity that had always been inside of me, It mixed with my environment and life experiences to make something tangible,something that expressed me.
Bernard Sumner
And when the clouds do clear awayGet a momentary chance to seeThe thing I've been trying to beat to deathThe soft creature that I used to beThe better animal I used to be
John Darnielle
As much as I would really like to have saved myself heartache, embarrassment or gossip, I also know that my biggest mistakes have turned into my best lessons. And sometimes my greatest career triumphs. If my life had been turbulence-free, maybe my music would be beige, maybe the stadiums wouldn’t be full and the mantle would be a little more empty.
Taylor Swift
I'm not like themBut I can pretend
Kurt Cobain
Sometimes in order to appreciate your future, you must remember the past.
Dennis E. Adonis
You are the grace of my life So tender, so undeserved Hard to believe you're my wife Even harder to put what I feel into words If I need evidence God is good Just looking at you is enough You are the grace of my life For you grace my life with your love
Brian Littrell
I've been looking so long at these pictures of youThat I almost believe that they're real I've been living so long with my pictures of youThat I almost believe that the pictures are All I can feelRemembering You standing quiet in the rain As I ran to your heart to be near And we kissed as the sky fell inHolding you close How I always held close in your fearRemembering You running soft through the night You were bigger and brighter and wider than snowAnd screamed at the make-believe Screamed at the skyAnd you finally found all your courage To let it all goRemembering You fallen into my arms Crying for the death of your heart You were stone whiteSo delicate Lost in the cold You were always so lost in the darkRemembering You how you used to be Slow drowned You were angelsSo much more than everything Hold for the last time then slip away quietly Open my eyes But I never see anythingIf only I'd thought of the right words I could have held on to your heart If only I'd thought of the right wordsI wouldn't be breaking apart All my pictures of youLooking so long at these pictures of you But I never hold on to your heart Looking so long for the words to be trueBut always just breaking apartMy pictures of youThere was nothing in the worldThat I ever wanted more Than to feel you deep in my heartThere was nothing in the world That I ever wanted moreThan to never feel the breaking apartAll my pictures of you
Boris Williams
It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It's the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That's the power of the gospel.
Ben Harper
When I looked into her eyes, I saw an invisible spirit of something that I already loved.
Anthony Kiedis
If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it.
John Mayer
So you're gone and i'm hauntedAnd i bet you are just fineDid i make it that easy to walkRight in and out of my life
A Fine Frenzy
The teaching of Jesus Christ has as its central theme unfoldment towards a realization of immortality.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
I do not believe profanity has anything to do with Christianity, thank you.
Dee Snider
I was never afraid of the dark and I spent my youth walking through empty playgrounds at midnight, worried mothers telling girls to be careful and ”the world is an ugly place and not everyone wants you well”. But I was not afraid and I wished for adrenaline to make my veins pulsate in that way that puts them more on the outside of my skin than inside.After the first night with you I never walked alone at night again because suddenly I had something to lose. Something to save.
Charlotte Eriksson
Trends of the times be damned.
Robert Glasper
Observing someone doesn't mean that you know them. Too many folks think they know you when they really don't know you.
Werley Nortreus
I'm old enough to have lived in a country where, if you were willing to work hard, you could have a fairly nice life. You could support your family, and even get a shot at owning your own home. But you never thought you'd get a swimming pool. Now culture has hypnotised people into thinking they're really nothing if they're not wealthy and a Kardashian.
Tom Petty
The question for each man is not what he would do if he had the means time influence and educational advantages but what he will do with the things he has.
Frank Hamilton
Words suck. I mean, every thing has been said. I can't remember the last real interesting conversation I've had in a long time. Words aren't as important as the energy derived from music, especially live.
Kurt Cobain
Art and disease proliferate via contagion, and similar conditions favor both.
Ted Gioia
Barriers were being torn down. Where Freddie Mercury was trying to keep his homosexuality from the front pages, Boy George was openly & outrageously gay.
Pete Townshend
Oh, I can picture myself rattling along Route 66 on that thing, headphones on, singing along to ZZ Top's 'Sharp Dressed Man' or the opening line from 'Born to be Wild' by Steppenwolf - 'Get your motor running...' The trike brings out that in all of us, which is no bad thing. Forget Viagra, get yourself a trike!
Billy Connolly
Most people who think they're happy are really just stupid.
Tom Kitt
God made me blind and unable to walk. Big deal!
Patrick Henry Hughes
It's all in the mind.
George Harrison