Top 46 Quotes & Sayings by Eyedea

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Eyedea.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Eyedea

Micheal David Larsen, better known by his stage name Eyedea, was an American musician, rapper and poet. He was a freestyle battle champion and songwriter from Saint Paul, Minnesota.

If you only had an hour to sum your whole life up, would you spend that hour saying that an hour ain't enough?
What is great now is not even close to what Jimmy Hendrix was. We need to reevaluate the standards of what's [labeled] great music.
We're all born into this river without knowing how to swim,
 And eventually we learn how to keep this water under our chins — © Eyedea
We're all born into this river without knowing how to swim, And eventually we learn how to keep this water under our chins
I listen to The Beatles, we both [with Abilities] listen to everything.
Kentucky Gag Order is a great band, there's stuff here and there that you catch that is cool.
Storm is prerequisite to mental gain
Everything is something, but something is nothing.
The stress that we [with Abilities] always feel is trying to continue advancing with our music. That's our plight, it's ingrained in our personalities. We feel like we're trying to race the world of music itself - just trying to create the best music, and as soon as we get done with one piece we're trying to figure out how to top it.
Ain't nothing quite as beautiful as music.
When my soul steps to exit this frame, I will be reincarnated as rain.
Agony is truth its our connection to the living I accept it as perfection and keep on existing in the now
I refuse to let past bruises cover the light. It ain't all good, but it's all good enough so I know I'm alright
There's [in Outcast] so much for my ear, brain and mind and body to gain. — © Eyedea
There's [in Outcast] so much for my ear, brain and mind and body to gain.
I like that Sleepy Brown guy who's down with Andre. He's so great.
I'm lonely, but everyone is lonely So at least I know I'm not alone.
I have a lot of respect for Jay-Z, Eminem, Ludacris, Cee-Lo. They're groundbreaking.
I write with my past, about the future, for the present
Society has low standards for what is considered good or great music.
The technical stuff is easy to deal with, it's just supplemental to the plight - it's not a real thing, it's just background to what we're really trying to do.
We're inspired by groups who always try to change and get better.
We listen to the greats. I'm not going to listen to average rap when I can listen to an Outkast album.
There's so much world to see, what's stopping you from flying free?
I'm a live wire in a dead world.
I think Radiohead and Outkast are the two modern popular groups who you can actually say that about. We take inspiration from everywhere.
A pessimist is just an optimist with experience.
What don't kill me will just make me crazier
I'm here for you in the same way that you're here for me, each person is an intricate piece of infinity.
No one really knows exactly what happens when we think, Therefore we can never really ever know anything...
The world is divided between peasants and kings, but the truth is everybody's looking for the same thing.
I'm a frightened little cat that learned to act like a lion
Heaven ain't something someone else can give.. It's all inside of me — © Eyedea
Heaven ain't something someone else can give.. It's all inside of me
It's so fun to be in love... or so I've heard, The meaning has no feeling even though I understand the word...
I think of the world when I hurt, and keep on existing in the now
This city runs fast, no one has time to sit with themselves, No time to look into our pain or see the same despair in everyone else
Everyone's the same. All brains are contained by their reality frame and chained to the terrain that they're trained not to change and once you see what I've explained you've hit the jackpot.
I like a girl who's smart, they have to be able to grasp witty sarcasm.
Empathy is the poor man's cocaine, and love is just a chemical by any other name
I can only build if I tear the walls down, even if it breaks me I won't let it make me frown, I'm falling but no matter how hard I hit the ground, I'll still smile
Time taught me how to see every second as heaven, even though they're perfectly disguised as hell.
You see heaven isn't some place that we go to when we die. It's that split second in life where you actually feel alive, and until the end of time, we chase the memory of that, hoping the future holds something better than the past.
Music of today is not even in the same building as music from the '70s. — © Eyedea
Music of today is not even in the same building as music from the '70s.
Poets play with words to keep themselves sane
We listen to the early '90s Hip-Hop that we were raised on. I still think that stuff is better than anything you hear nowadays.
I'm falling, but no matter how hard I hit the ground, I'll still smile.
This is the consciousness revolution, You got the right to think, Don't think about it just do it
I know you feel alone, but just look up at the stars, and everything that is out there is what you really are
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