Quotes by Musicians - Page 6

In the land of the rejected, the field is flattened, open to much oppurtunity. Here flourish the weeds and nonstandard quality alike. No one aspires, because there is no pinnacle to reach — just be better than whoever is next to you. It is basic, fundamental, and often rude, with bonus points for creative solution. Hardly ever about who you are, but how you do, it's "run what you brung" not Formula 1.

Alec Mackaye

Simply put, self-centered and egocentric people don'tinspire others. We are inspired by people who placeothers-- other people, other ideas, other goals-- abovethemselves.

Del Suggs

I don't think you should wait. I think you should speak now.

Taylor Swift

The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the tree of knowledge. The subtext is, 'All the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on. You could be in the Garden of Eden if you had just kept your fucking mouth shut and hadn't asked any questions.

Frank Zappa

There are so many different kinds of ghosts.

John Darnielle

The only performance that makes it, that makes it all the way is the one that achieves madness.

Mick Jagger

You light the Spark in my Bonfire Heart.

James Blunt

Sailboats with they were stars, floating softly through the sky, among our dreams that pay goodbye.

Adam Young

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Frank Zappa

The forecast iswe kiss goodbye and never helloall kisses are then parting kisses

Saul Williams

How could it ever be to our purpose to rob another living being of his or her purpose?

Will Tuttle

Trends of the times be damned.

Robert Glasper

You need to understand that truth is stranger than fiction. Listen: people are willing to swallow any old tripe as long as you say it without flinching. They want to be told stuff. And they don't want to doubt you either. It's too hard.

Craig Silvey

When the others were picked up and walked home by friends or fathers or best friend’s sisters,I was the kid in a grey hoodie, walking with the poets, the singers, the thinkers, and I was not alone.

Charlotte Eriksson

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

Kris Kristofferson

Maybe we were together in another life...in a parallel universe, maybe our paths are not supposed to cross twice, maybe your arms are not supposed to go around me. I hear about you now & then, I wonder where you are & how you feel. Sometimes I walk by & I look up to your balcony, just to make sure you were real-just to make sure that I can still feel you...it appears to me that Destiny Rules...

Stevie Nicks

What had human beings become? Did war make us evil or just activate an evil already lurking within us?

Ruta Sepetys

If you expect the best of yourself, you’ll find yourself expecting the best of those around you, too. And you will find that people respond inkind. I believe people want to be held to a higher standard. If you expect the best from people, they will give you their best work.

Del Suggs

I let the beast in too soon I don't know how to live without his hand on my throat. I fight him always and still. Oh, darling it's so sweet. You think you know how crazy, how crazy I am.

Fiona Apple

But how can they just decide that we're animals? They don't even know us," I said."We know us," said Mother. "They're wrong. And don't ever allow them to convince you otherwise. Do you understand?

Ruta Sepetys

We have both lost ourselves and created something else, something that exists only as an interlacing of the two of us. Christ, we're in love. As deeply, as profoundly, as it's possible to be in love.

Robert James Waller

Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete women should try to give their best qualities to men- bring them softness teach them how to cry.

Joan Baez

Religion thrives on want and fear of the unknown, on lack of education. A frightened and confused human is fed by religious institutions with the illusion that the solution to his real problems is to appeal to the good will of an imaginary supernatural divinity religious institutions claim to represent. With one hand they offer a cup of rice and a pair of used shoes someone else has paid for. With the other, they place the Bible on the table, setting up the poor in spirit for the belief trap.

Paul Greene

Day is just a collection of hours.

Serj Tankian

I want to board a train, and leave my books behind. I want to be so caught up in writing about the journey, that I forget that fiction & fact are not the same. The destination does not signify.

Hannah Harding

Why was it considered normal for a girl to live for fashion and makeup, but not car engines or bugs? And what about sports fanatics? My mom had a boyfriend who would flip out if he missed even a minute of a football game. Wouldn't that be what doctors considered autistic behavior?

Tara Kelly

When you discard arrogance, complexity, and a few other things that get in the way, sooner or later you will discover that simple, childlike, and mysterious secret known to those of the uncared block: life is fun.

Benjamin Hoff

You know, I went out on a normal amount of dates in my early 20s, and I got absolutely slaughtered for it. And it took a lot of hard work and altering my decision-making. I didn’t date for two and a half years. Should I have had to do that? No.

Taylor Swift

A friend is someone who walks into a room when everyone else is walking out.

Gary Moore

He read because it gave him instant gratification in a way nothing else did,and as was the case with all addicts,gratification was the important thing.

Jeet Thayil

I feel ugly” I said and you looked at me as if I spoke a different language. There are things you will never understand and if there were words to describe the rapture that takes place in my head from time to time I would put my hand in front of your eyes to protect you from all the ugliness in the world. I kept my eyes on the streetlights outside the window and you kissed every inch of my body as if you could kiss the pain away.

Charlotte Eriksson

It is the nature of the Kali Yuga that most human beings are now held back from spiritual liberation due to the gravity of inertia, apathy and laziness, (known in Sankrit as the quality of tapas) that overwhelms this age. Despite this seemingly gloomy prognosis, there is a way out of this predicament for those with the will and stamina to awaken from the rampant lethargy, within and outside of themselves, to take action.

Zeena Schreck

You are a very special person. There is only one like you in the whole world. There's never been anyone exactly like you before, and there will never be again. Only you. And people can like you exactly as you are.

Fred Rogers

The eighties happened. The nineties happened. Death and sickness and getting fat and going bald happened. I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it.

Mitch Albom

I’ll never second guess the things that I have done. I’ve got too much left to say and too much to become.

Alex Gaskarth

It's the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days

Tim Minchin

It's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion.

Fiona Apple

If you're going to play it out of tune, then play it out of tune properly.

Mark E. Smith

I’m still lonely and it’s a glorification of something I’m not finished with. I don’t want to be distracted from my work by other people, but the absence of it all distracts me from my work and that’s why I run towards the city, to get a little glimpse of it.

Charlotte Eriksson

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

What does your anxiety do? It does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but it empties today of its strength. It does not make you escape the evil; it makes you unfit to cope with it if it comes.

Raymond L. Cramer

But wasn't there some sort of rule that said parents had to be smarter than their kids? It didn't seem fair.

Ruta Sepetys

Im looking for a girl who's fun to be around.

Ross Lynch

We would go out and play these songs and people could interpret them however the hell they wanted.

Carrie Brownstein

Written in pain, written in aweBy a puzzled man who questionedWhat we were here for

David Bowie

What is the purpose of my life, is it doesn't have to do with learning to let go?

Jack Johnson

For the first time she realized she'd spent so much time mourning a world that had ended ages ago, hoping to resurrect it, that she'd never paid attention to what it was becoming. Or returning to again, now that it was unfettered. Where were the centaurs, she might have asked instead. Where were the gorgons, the furies, the giants and the gods?

Brian Hodge

A good education should leave much to be desired.

Alan Gregg

Simplicity is a kind of transparency in which subtle nuances can have outsize effects.

David Byrne

I'm gay above the waist.

Pete Wentz

Things will be OK in the end. If it's not OK, it's not the end.

Bob Marley

I had a lot of Hell that God needed to squeeze out of me, and believe me, sometimes when the Hell leaves you it screams at God on the way out. And when the pain from your past leaves you, sometimes you have to feel it again on the way out. There's nothing we can say or do that can separate us from God's love.

Brian Welch

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do.

Miles Davis

...food was at least three million per cent more delicious when you ate it immediately after thinking you were going to die.

Joshua Donellan

I’ve learned to turn life’s setbacks into opportunities for creation.

Benyf

Every time you empty your vessel of that energy, fresh new energy comes flooding in.

Anthony Kiedis

I make a point to appreciate all the little things in my life. I go out and smell the air after a good, hard rain. I re-read passages from my favorite books. I hold the little treasures that somebody special gave me. These small actions help remind me that there are so many great, glorious pieces of good in the world.

Dolly Parton

You can get what you want or you can just get old.

Billy Joel

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

To most anarchists, the advocacy of freedom on Earth while bowing to a heavenly tyrant (no matter how imaginary) seems an insupportable contradiction.

Chaz Bufe

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