Top 156 Quotes & Sayings by Cat Stevens - Page 2

I wouldn't be writing songs if I didn't have something to say.

The private little world that I create with my music is something that most people like to listen to alone and get into.

There's been this argument about Coldplay stealing this melody from Joe Satriani, but, if you listen to it, it's mine! It's the 'Foreigner Suite,' it is!

People who want to remember me as Cat Stevens - welcome. Those who want me as Yusuf, you're here.

The theatre is a world in itself. The possibility for creating experiences that move people is increased many times over. In the end, the best stories are usually about a battle of good over evil - that has never changed.

I thought everybody would embrace and understand my reasons for becoming Muslim.

My whole aim in whatever I say, whatever I do, is to follow the peaceful line of having people live together... If we can all play in that game, the world will be a better place.

I'm afraid that a lot of things that people believe about Islam are totally different from the religion that most of us recognize. I was really fortunate that I got to know Islam before it became a headline.

I think kids relate to me because I have some ability to remain a little bit naive. Even during interviews. Mostly during interviews.

I used Coldplay's mixer, Michael H. Brauer, on 'Roadsinger'; he's brilliant. He won a Grammy for their record.

Businesswomen are fine. But they shouldn't be forced to pay for the raising of the family. It's the husband's job. That's the way I see it.

Considering the fact that I have been in the spotlight more or less since I was 18, there is an aspect of normality to my public profile, which I have grown to live with. As much as I would like to disappear into the crowd, my work won't let me - difficult as it is for my family.

I'm a mirror glass for the Muslims as well as the Western world, which looks at me in a slightly different way, but they are looking in the same mirror.

I believe Islam was truly spread by example. So whatever good a Muslim does publicly will be seen - the same is true for the bad.

My imam at the Central Mosque said there was no problem with making music. In fact, he encouraged me - he said if the songs are moral, not offensive, then go ahead.

I don't like applause, I must admit. Ultimately, artists are shy creatures; they're introverts.

I grew up in the West End, so my whole background was living among theatres and musicals and the West End's coffee bars and clubs. It's kind of obvious that one day I should do something like that.

The sexual act - separating that from love itself - is centered solely in the body, whereas spirituality is connected to the whole self. Whether it's a female, a taste, or a sound, all these beautiful things affect our self. We are the perceivers of beauty, and that's why sex doesn't quite go far enough. You can go much further with the spiritual.

Vanity is the most dangerous thing about fame.

You can argue with a philosopher, but you can’t argue with a good song. And I think I’ve got a few good songs.

Love heats my blood, blood spins my head, and my head falls in love.

The harm done is often difficult to repair.

I've been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as one. And I believe it could be someday it's going to come.

A flight from London carrying the artist we all used to know as Cat Stevens, now known as Yusuf Islam, was forced to make an emergency landing in Bangor, Maine after his name showed up on a terrorist no-fly list. I tell you, it's a real success story in the war on terror. You know, we finally got the guy that wrote "Peace Train.

So on and on I go, the seconds tick the time out There's so much left to know, and I'm on the road to find out.

I think I will just use guitar as backing. I'm not doing a traditional folk thing, but a contemporary thing-my own version of folk, if you like.

Ooh baby, baby, it's a wild world, it's hard just to get by upon a smile.

Music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony.

From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen.

I tried Zen and Ching, numerology, tarot cards and astrology. I tried to look back into the Bible, and could not find anything. At this time I did not know anything about Islam, and then, what I regarded as a miracle occurred. My brother had visited the mosque in Jerusalem, and was greatly impressed that while on the one hand it throbbed with life.

Baby I know, the first cut is the deepest.

Sun is the reason And the world it will bloom 'Cause sun lights the sky And the sun lights the moon

All the songs that were written for that album are just all our first sophomore songs. So they're all from real life. Very sweet and very innocent. I think the theme of the album probably was just that it was our first record. ... Back when we were first making records, you didn't just make the music, you put a great deal of energy into the way it looked, and every word that was written on the whole thing.

I listen to the wind, to the wind of my soul Where I end up, well, I think only God really knows.

Positive thoughts and prayer have been the best means available, since the beginning of time, to transform darkness to light.

If you want to be free be free

You may still be here tomorrow...but your dreams may not.

But when it comes to being loved, she's first/That's how I know The first cut is the deepest.

The verses talked about other Prophets as brothers preaching the same unifying script of mankind, showing every man and woman the way to Paradise. I saw the names of Jesus, of Moses, of Abraham, of Jacob, of Noah and of course, crucially, the name of this last messenger, the last Messenger of God, Muhammad.

Oh I can't keep it in; I can't keep it in, I've gotta let it out I've got to show the world; world's got to see, See all the love; love that's in me

Now I've been crying lately, Thinking about the world as it is. Why must we go on hating? Why can't we live in bliss?

And if my mind breaks up In all so many ways I know the meaning of The words, "I love you

I never thought I'd be on the same stage as Kiss.

Man may live and man may die searching for the question why. But if he tries to rule the sky, he must fall.

If you want to be you, BE YOU!

Lord, my body has been a good friend But I won't need it when I reach the end Miles from nowhere, Guess I'll take my time Oh yeah, to reach there

Life is a maze of doors and they all open from the side you're on. Just keep on pushing hard boy, try as you may, you're going to wind up where you started from.

Don't you feel a change a coming From another side of time, Breaking down the walls of silence, Lifting shadows from your mind.

Say what you think; think what you mean.

And though you want to last forever, You know you never will, You know you never will, And the good-bye makes the journey harder still.

Life is a journey, you know; and a lot of journeys, you go out, you come back.

Will you carry the words of love with you?

I know many fine feathered friends But their friendliness depends on how you do They know many sure fired ways, To find out the one who pays And how you do

Islam is not just a religion. Islam is everything.

I remember when I was a kid, when I just used to love listening to something again and again and over and over. You know, everybody else got sick of it, but I loved that discovery of music and what it did to my world, to my imagination. And so I started really considering, "Yeah, I've got to do more," for kids, particularly.

After embracing Islam in 1977, I considered the majority of underprivileged dark-skinned people of the so-called Third World brothers and sisters in humanity.

If I make a mark in time, I can't say the mark is mine.

Take your time, think a lot, Why, think of everything you've got. For you will still be here tomorrow, but your dreams may not. From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen. Now there's a way and I know that I have to go away. I know I have to go.

Everything made so much sense. This is the beauty of the Qur'an; it asks you to reflect and reason....When I read the Qur'an further, it talked about prayer, kindness and charity. I was not a Muslim yet, but I felt the o­nly answer for me was the Qur'an and God had sent it to me.

I'm not the best of you, but I'm not the worst either.