Quotes by Musicians - Page 9

But then, I knew so little about my mother over the last decade of her life. I had been too wrapped up in my own drama.
Mitch Albom
When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. The public library is a great equaliser.
Keith Richards
There must be some kind of way out of here,' said the joker to the thief...
Bob Dylan
COSMIC DANCER""I was dancing when I was twelveI was dancing when I was aaahI danced myself right out the wombIs it strange to dance so soonI danced myself right out the wombI was dancing when I was eightIs it strange to dance so lateI danced myself into the tombIs it strange to dance so soonI danced myself into the tombIs it wrong to understandThe fear that dwells inside a manWhat's it like to be a loonI liken it to a balloonI danced myself out of the wombIs it strange to dance to soonI danced myself into the tombBut then again once moreI danced myself out of the wombIs it strange to dance so soonI danced myself out of the womb.
Marc Bolan
Remember that you are all people and that all people are you.
Joy Harjo
There are some people that if they don't know you can't tell 'em.
Louis Armstrong
There's a man who is my brother,I just don't know his name,But I know his home and family,Because I know we feel the same,And it hurts me when he's hungry,Or when his children cry,I too am a father,That little one is mineIt's about time we begin it,To turn the world around,It's about time we start to make it,The dream we've always known,It's about time we start to live it,The family of man,It's about time, It's about changes, And it's about time,It's about you and me together,And it's about time
John Denver
Good to know we're all twelve years old mentally. Keeps things in perspective.
Alexander William Gaskarth
If you give people a chance, they shine.
Billy Connolly
If you understand or if you don'tIf you believe or if you doubtThere's a universal justiceAnd the eyes of truthAre always watching you
Enigma
How many rivers do we have to cross,Before we can talk to the boss?
Bob Marley
I'd wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound than ever wear a band aid in public.
Lady Gaga
In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.
Phil Collins
You do not get to choose the events that come your way nor the sorrows that interrupt your life. They will likely be a surprise to you, catching you off quard and unprepared. You may hold your head in your hands and lament your weak condition and wonder what you ought to do. To suffer, that is common to all. To suffer and still keep your composure, your faith and your smile, that is remarkable. Pain will change you more profoundly than success or good fortune. Suffering shapes your perception of life, your values and priorities, and your goals and dreams. Your pain is changing you,
David Crosby
What's been important in my understanding of myself and others is the fact that each one of us is so much more than any one thing. A sick child is much more than his or her sickness. A person with a disability is much, much more than a handicap. A pediatrician is more than a medical doctor. You're MUCH more than your job description or your age or your income or your output.
Fred Rogers
Our human lives serve much like frames for our spiritual lives.
Matt Kellum
Books are Lighthouses erected in the sea of time." Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest
Alex St. Clair
Farsi Couplet:Naala-e zanjeer-e Majnun arghanoon-e aashiqanastZauq-e aan andaza-e gosh-e ulul-albaab neestEnglish Translation:The creaking of the chain of Majnun is the orchestra of the lovers,To appreciate its music is quite beyond the ears of the wise.
Amir Khusrau
But I miss screamin' and fightin' and kissin' in the rain and it's 2 a.m. and I'm cursin' your name. You're so in love the you act insane, and that's the way I loved you.
Taylor Swift
The lights are off and the sun if finally setting, the night sky is changing overhead
Tegan Quin
Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
David Byrne
Don't live your life like a movie. Always thinkin you could've been something. Don't live your life for me or for anyone. You live your life as if you're one.
Tegan Quin
The violence between women is unbelievable...women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.
Tori Amos
Everybody gets to play.
John Wimber
The only really frightening thing about Cinnamon Hill belongs in the realm of the living and serves to remind me that some of them-just a few of them, a tiny minority-are much more dangerous than all the dead put together.
Johnny Cash
I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.
Mitch Albom
Rock and roll, big band, the blues. He loved them all. He would close his eyes and with a blissful smile begin to move to his own sense of rhythm. It wasn't always pretty.
Mitch Albom
Rumors went round that I might be gay. In some ways, I was happy w/ this. Larry Rivers proved to me that a gay man could be wild, attractive, and courageous; in any case one's sexuality was becoming less of an issue every day. One of the great things about the British Mod movement was that being macho was no longer the only measure of manhood.
Pete Townshend
Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra as opposed to the Bible? Who wins?
Frank Zappa
Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe.
John Lennon
I do believe in an everyday sort of magic -- the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like; the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity; the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we're alone.
Charles de Lint
Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.
Bob Seger
I used to be free spirited, now I'm just free of sleep. I got a burning passion in my throat. I got a burning passion inside me.
Tegan Quin
I've always been famous, it's just no one knew it yet.
Lady Gaga
If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words
Dolly Parton
A musician's or artist's responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth,
Tom Morello
We will paste upon the curled pages wordsLike charming and romantic and sentimentalForgetting that charming is witchcraftRomantic is loveAnd sentiment is what makes us human
Emilie Autumn
I know you’re hurting, Taylor, but grief is clouding your judgement and you need to stay focused. If you attack her now, you won’t win. You know she has the advantage, Taylor. I’ve taught you this. Please, we just need to get out of here.
Embee
Pain is holy ground in a person's life.
Jason Gray
O heavenly Father,protect and bless all thingsthat have breath: guard themfrom all evil and let them sleep in peace.
Albert Schweitzer
You are more than the choices that you make, You are more than the sum of your past mistakes, You are more than the problems you create.
Tenth Avenue North
Dogs are gonna take over the world. It's a known fact for those who believe it, kinda like the Bible.
Green Day
There is a reason you glance up when you first hear a melody, or tap your foot to the sound of a drum. All humans are musical. Why else would the Lord give you a beating heart?
Mitch Albom
I was feeling insecure you might not love me anymore
John Lennon
The true cost of following your dreams isn't what you sacrifice when you chase them, it's what you lose when you don't
Simon S Tam
He wanted to know something about me. I leaned over and put my mouth to his ear. It was barely a whisper.'I'm a murderer.
Ruta Sepetys
I stand beside Tom's barn and ponder the benign heedlessness of the people in the speeding cars, and here I am in the speeding car. In my heart I wish the bypass had never been built; in my car I never take the old way.
Michael Perry
Sometimes kindness can be delivered in a clumsy way. But it's far more sincere in its clumsiness than those distinguished men you read about in books. Your father was very clumsy.”"Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness. There's love and emotion trying to express itself, but at the time, it just ends up being awkward. Good men are often more practical than pretty . . . . [He] just happens to be both.
Ruta Sepetys
There are only three ways to teach a child. The first is by example, the second is by example, the third is by example.
Albert Schweitzer
Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
Frank Zappa
Doubt is how you find God
Mitch Albom
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.
Bob Dylan
But, my God, it's so beautiful when the boy smiles
Anna Nalick
what the fuck
Luke Hemmings
Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you.
Paul McCartney
Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars.
Violeta Parra
This ain't the heartbreak hotel even though I know it well.Those no shows should you tell in the way you hold yourself.Don't you fret should you get another cancellation, give me a chance and I'll make a permanent reservation.In your heart in your, I can tell you fit one more
The Wanted
Everybody's got a true home—maybe not where they're living, butwhere their heart lives.
Charles de Lint
Catch your dreams before they slip awayDying all the timeLose your dreamsAnd you will lose your mind
Rolling Stones
The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
Kurt Cobain