Top 683 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Musical Artists - Page 9

The coolest thing about the music industry is that it's super collaborative and based on relationships and mutual respect.

Country music is not a formula it's a music with its own soul and I'm all about saving that soul!

Never underestimate a girl’s love for her favorite band. Never think even for a minute, that she won’t defend them to her death. Because it’s not just the music that makes that band her favorite. It’s the guys, the gals. It’s the fans. People whom of which she has interacted with thanks to the band. That band might of saved her life, or just made her smile everyday. That band has never broke her heart and has yet to leave her. No wonder she finds such joy in her music.

Nothing is easy, and life can be extremely tough, but there's always a yin to the yang, so to speak. It's up to you to seek it out, embrace it, and live happily ever after. No matter how bad the hand you've been dealt may seem, there's always a way to play it.

Inspire others to live their lives for the glory of God.

My rhymes make niggas rebuild like water damage.

A band that cries together stays together.

There's a big difference between the Arabic and Western scales. One uses quarter tone system and one doesn't. So in order for me to compose real Arabic scale melodies, I would need an Arabic keyboard, and I don't have one. So I had to compose Arabesque melodies.

Love is like a colorful street. Let it blossom into the sky like a rainbow by walking it with the ones you Love.

Music has been in our family for generations.

The Literary and Artistic heritage of humanity should be used for partisan propaganda purposes.

Raise the roof, that I might see the stars To gain wisdom, to see things for what they are Please, I need proof

People are always asking what's the secret of my success, and the answer is easy - at least for me. You have to have a strong inner drive. If you don't have a goal or purpose to strive for, I don't think that you have much of a life. You've got to have something to do that you want to apply yourself to - that's what living is all about.

At the end of oneself was the best place to discover the Lord at work.

I can truthfully say, in arts I have pretty much seen and done it all and, at my age, I have no patience with wide-eyed artists fooling themselves about their place in history. We should know by now that it is the whim of the elite few who set the rules... those who have fooled themselves into believing that they are God's gift to the ages.

To say someone is a producer... it's kind of a slippery term.

I didn't mind writing incoherently, up until about 1980, occasionally. But after that, I decided, might as well be articulate. And I found, though, that writing poetry affected my prose to the point where I never again wrote in one draft, and my prose just took longer and longer and longer. It took longer and longer to come up with an acceptable text. And that's probably one of the reasons that my output has slowed down.

I was born by God's dear grace, in an extraordinary place. Where the stars and stripes, and the eagle fly.

When I was doing mainly music, I used to stick a microphone out the window, into the countryside, and create a live mix. I wanted to put air in electronic music. I record the sounds of twigs, barks, and stones. I've always been obsessed with the idea of combining the natural and the man-made. It's not because I think the technology is crap, or that I'm trying to work against it, but that juxtaposition is truly beautiful. The question of what is natural and unnatural is very open.

New tech almost always looks dumb right before it completely changes your life.

That’s me, man – I’m a lover not a fighter.

It starts with an "I" And ends with a "U" I got a feelin' Are you feelin' it too

A lot of my buddies enjoy the writing part or the studio part, and I love the live show part. That's the reason I got into all this, to play keg parties and bars. I still love playing live.

Burnin marijuana pon di corner, It keep me calmer, It mek me smarter. Burnin pon di highway, its the highest grade, gettin into my head.

I have found that the best cure for self pity is to do something to help someone else.

I am deeply stoned on the intoxicating effects of [Country Music.]

When a pastor continually makes light of the character of our Lord by speaking in scatological tones about the Son of Man's bodily functions in incarnation or wearing T-Shirts that rather mock the King of Righteousness rather than glorify Him, then something is terribly awry.

If you're wondering where the Lord is, At this very hour, I tell you he's alive and well, With resurrection power!..

I was praying that you and me might end up together. It's like wishing for rain as I stand in the desert, but I'm holding you closer than most, 'cause you are my heaven.

All of our heartfelt lies Are not enough this time

Sleater-Kinney's biggest momentum was from the press - that, second to Radiohead, they got more positive press than any other band in America in the 90s.

My work is my work and I will attempt to sell it for what it is.

I never made music for that crowd. I never made music to fit in. I made music of what I like to hear.

Never be discontent with the life you've been dealt, be discontent with the way you're living it.

My father had a phase of having jukeboxes all over the house. He was a music lover but he was also into musical machinery. Not instruments, he was never interested in playing particularly but there would be these odd objects, like valve amplifiers being dismantled on the kitchen table. My mum wasn't massively keen on that, but it was part of the environment.

It is only those who feel disconnected and seperated from the Oneness of All That Is that can ever commit evil deeds.

That idea of not being exactly who you write as is so crucial. Even looking at those words as I type them, it feels dirty, it feels like I'm admitting something. Unfortunately, I think that's how the conversation around nonfiction is so much of the time - either defensive or accusatory. Aha! You've been caught! But the original essence of something is always lost when it's reproduced.

I'm glad I'm still in motion. I don't think of my past achievements. The most important thing is what I'm going to do tomorrow. I'm happy I did what I did. Thanks be to God.

The Conservation Buck Challenge was designed to engage and mobilize the hunting community to preserve the outdoor experience for future generations. Our members will be ambassadors for ethical hunting, respect for private property rights, support for conservation funding and programs that give our children the chance to learn the valuable lessons of nature.

The truth is that judgment and fear will never stop, but they don't actually do anything.

I got better the way everyone gets better: by trial and error and error and error, by fumbling around and making mistakes but not giving up and working incredibly hard at it every day and eventually, through a painful and laborious process of eliminating every wrong turn, finding my way.

Where there's compassion, no heirarchy can exist. Where men are allowed to create themselves as equals, evil cannot thrive or survive.

As it turned out, my greatest fear in life had become expectations.

Each breath I breathe is one more chance to share my love with those around me.

I came to nonfiction through journalism. My first book was journalism, and it was so frustrating to me, while I was writing it, that I wasn't capturing the moments the way they were when I lived them; I was filtering and re-filtering. I had to come to terms with the fact that I couldn't and shouldn't claim authenticity. Then, when the book was published and I gave readings, I'd hear myself read and it was like I was eavesdropping on a dream - even with myself as the narrator. I knew that guy but couldn't exactly recognize him.

How in this world can we put a man on the moon, and still have a need for a place like St. Judes?

Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier.

We don't criticize. Criticism is an enemy. You've got to make loving, positive suggestions.

I always hate people that complain about showbiz after they've had a good run. To me there are so many great bands that never get their due, that are struggling away. And I'm like, if you hit the lottery, man, you can't expect it to come around every time.

It's been a little tough just because we've been playing so much. Your lives are getting a little more complicated than they were straight out of college when we first started. People are starting to get married, have families and all, it becomes more of a challenge. It's not an easy lifestyle.

I found my life's calling when you spoke my name.

I haven't quite wrapped my brain around the sleeping part yet, but I'm definitely working like a maniac.

They say hard work pays off Well tell the Based God don't quit his day job

Tim [Omundson] is just so wonderfully delicious. He has the sexiest beard on television. He's such a fabulous actor, and a great character.

Principles are like prayers; noble, of course, but awkward at a party.

Learning from the successes and failures of others is key to making quantum leaps toward our goals.

What attracted us to each other was what we saw in each other in our faith.

Poetry became my doctor, my lover.

We are saved by grace, through faith in Christ alone! And since there is no room for human merit there can be no grounds for human boasting!

Man, for someone like me who had George Jones music imprinted in my DNA before birth, the last few years have been rough as a fan of country music.