Quotes by Musicians - Page 13

Rock 'n' roll music, in the end, is a source of religious and mystical power. Your playing can suck, your singing can be barely viable, but if when you get together with your pals in front of your audience and make the noise, the one that is drawn from the center of your being, from your godhead, from your gutter, from the universe's infinitesimal genesis point... you're rockin' and you're a rock 'n' roll star in every sense of the word. The punks instinctively knew this and created a third revolution out of it, but it is an essential element in the equation of every great musical unit and rock 'n' roll band, no matter how down-to-earth their presentation.

Bruce Springsteen

America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.

Ringo Starr

I would rather my heart be without words than my words be without heart.

LaMar Boschman

Trying to take away someone’s language is usually the first step in trying to change them.

C. N. Lester

I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older - until I drop dead of beauty.

Rufus Wainwright

Let me wake up next to you, have coffee in the morning and wander through the city with your hand in mine, and I'll be happy for the rest of my fucked up little life.

Charlotte Eriksson

If tears were liquor, I'd have drunk myself sick.

Mark Lanegan

I put a chameleon on a red dildo... He blushed

Bo Burnham

You become a house where the wind blows straight through, because no one bothers the crack in the window or lock on the door, and you’re the house where people come and go as they please, because you’re simply too unimpressed to care. You let people in who you really shouldn’t let in, and you let them walk around for a while, use your bed and use your books, and await the day when they simply get bored and leave. You’re still not bothered, though you knew they shouldn’t have been let in in the first place, but still you just sit there, apathetic like a beggar in the desert.

Charlotte Eriksson

i've loved you since the sun first rose," he read. "Ive loved you through God send Catastrophe and manmade Disaster. I've loved you though my heart stopped beating and my eyes ran dry, through time and in spite of it, for our love has its roots in eternity and cannot fall victim to time or death. My love has no shame, no pride. it is only what it is, always has been and always will be. It is Yours. all Yours. Only Yours Gregory went cold with fear-

Trevor Meldal-Johnsen

To find your way you must first take the steps

Martin Powell

The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy.

Pete Wentz

I see walking bombs on the streetHearts not beating, but ticking

Henry Rollins

Boredom is your mind and body’s way of telling you you’re not living up to your potential.

Hal Sparks

Do you really want to be happy? You can begin by being appreciative of who you are and what you've got.

Benjamin Hoff

...And you're the only one who knows.

Billy Joel

Revenge itself may indeed be the best revenge, but slaying one's enemy does not give back what they stole.

Emilie Autumn

Ghost towns filled with sad people who settled for what life offered them. The road unfurls before us. Everything is possible. I feel sick to my stomach.

Pete Wentz

We were all serious readers, sitting on wooden chairs at rows of lecterns, turning the pages, united in mutual love of isolation.

Michael Moorcock

Beauty walks a razors edge, someday I'll make it mine.

Bob Dylan

If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate.

Taylor Swift

The mind is left bereft when it is nothing more than a tool of regurgitation.

Corey Taylor

Are you sure this is a good idea?’ I ask.‘No,’ says Amber. ‘Let’s do it.

Doug MacLeod

All forests are one... They are all echoes of the first forest that gave birth to Mystery when the world began.

Charles de Lint

No matter what gifts you have, practice is the only way to get better at anything."If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery it would not seem so wonderful at all” - Michael Angelo

Jonathan Harnum

I'm already crazy. I'm a fearless person. I think it creeps up on you. I don't think it can be stopped. If my destiny is to lose my mind because of fame, then that's my destiny. But my passion still means more than anything.

Lady Gaga

But I can't confront the doubts I have.I can't admit that maybe the past was bad,and so, for the sake of momentumI'm condemning the future to deathso it can match the past.

Aimee Mann

Whatever gets you through the night

John Lennon

Would you believe it? Would you believe it. Okay, this is WLRB, all-talk radio. Take a short break, then come right back to talk about whatever you want. Man, but I'm telling you: what's happening to this country!

Avi

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.

David Allan Coe

Shoot for the stars, so if you fall you land on a cloud.

Kanye West

In strange and uncertain times such as those we are living in, sometimes a reasonable person might despair. But hope is unreasonable and love is greater even than this. May we trust the inexpressible benevolence of the creative impulse.

Robert Fripp

Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.

Tom Waits

Exactly. The dots guy. I've always thought getting older was a bit like looking at those paintings. You're born, and that's when you're standing right up next to the canvas. Nothing makes any sense. There's just a lot of light and color. But as you get older, you begin to back away, and that's when the image starts to cohere. All those little spots of color turn into flowers, or people, or dogs. You gain perspective.

Tommy Wallach

When a man wants to have an alehouse meltdown, the worst thing you can do is stand in his way

Luke Haines

I've always been serious that way, trying to evolve to a more conscious state. Funny thing about that,though. You tweak yourself,looking for more love, less lust, more compassion, less jealousy. You keep tweaking, keep adjusting those knobs until you can no longer find the original settings. In some sense,the original settings are exactly what I'm looking for-a return to the easygoing guy i was before my world got complicated, the nice guy who took things as they came and laughed so hard the blues would blow away in the summer wind.

Bill Withers

Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun

Saul Williams

The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.

Alice Cooper

When you think your life is falling apart, it's usually falling together in disguise.

Charlotte Eriksson

Do you Believe? Do you Fade like a Dream?Let me hear you BREATHELet me watch as you sleepThe Sparrow's Eyes... Promises shift into judgmentsI cannot deny that you were designed for my punishments

Slipknot

Punk rock should mean freedom, liking and excepting anything that you like. Playing whatever you want. As sloppy as you want. As long as it's good and it has passion.

Kurt Cobain

...We claim the present as the pre-sent, as the hereafter. We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun. We are not afraid of the darkness, we trust that the moon shall guide us. We are determining the future at this very moment. We now know that the heart is the philosophers' stone. Our music is our alchemy...

Saul Williams

Always be wary of people who use quotes. I don't know who said that.' - Murdoc Niccals

Gorillaz

The future for me is already a thing of the past -You were my first love and you will be my last

Bob Dylan

The last class of my old professor's life took place once a week in his house, by a window in the study where he could watch a small hibiscus plant shed its pink leaves.

Mitch Albom

Can't fight the moment of truth in your lies.

Goo Goo Dolls

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

Life is indeed a storm and while there are times you can sit and watch from the safety of a window pane there are moments you need to grit your teeth and take on the wind and the rain.

Ken Scott

Take my picture Hollywood. I wanna be STAR

Lady Gaga

Since the so-called Age of Enlightenment, our shaky anthropocentric, rationalist egos have been brainwashed to forget what 'primitive' cultures once understood: Animals can be manifestations of celestial beings in disguise; they possess supernatural abilities, and they can be our spiritual guides and healers.

Zeena Schreck

What is the quality you most like in a man? The ability to return books.

David Bowie

I wake up exhausted it's not morning. It's back to sleep to re-dream me. We're alone and we're happy. But there you are, angry with me

Tegan Quin

Be good to the people on your way up the ladder cause you'll ,meet them on your way down.

Robert Junior

It's always wrong to hate but it's never wrong to love.

Lady Gaga

Well, for one, you walk around like you’re so much better than everyone else. We’re all a bunch of soulless animals or somethin’ in your eyes, I guess. You’re the high and mighty one and I ain’t fit to drink your piss.

Michael Monroe

Maybe a good goal would be to just at least always try to create something good. Like something that is connected to love in some way. Like the [musical] equivalent of…you can make a decision to be kind. You can make a decision to greet people kindly and make jokes with people and connect.

Joanna Newsom

What if half the things ever said / Turned out to be a lie / How will you know the truth / If you were given all the answers / And you stopped to wonder why...

Prince

All these people moving through life, all around me, and no one, not a single person, knows what I'm going through.

Lee Thompson

The silence is the worst part of any fight, because it's made up of all the things we wish we could say, if only we had the guts.

Pete Wentz

I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay

Jeet Thayil

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