Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Musicians - Page 10

God is ever present. He's in every breath, in every step. He's here, always, always.

There's nothing that can shock me anymore, but at this point, Trump's made it very clear how his temperament is, how his personality is, what his level of intellectual depth is when it comes to policy, and he's made it abundantly clear that he's utterly unqualified to be president - no matter what your political views are.

I think too much of the music industry is for the lawyer and accountant mentality.

It is really rare to find someone you really, really love and that you want to spend your life with and all that stuff that goes along with being married. I am one of those lucky people. And I think she feels that way too. So the romantic stuff is easy because you want them to be happy.

My dad spent his whole life getting into fights for telling what he believed to be the truth. Basically it comes from my dad-and he's screaming right-wing, so there you are.

When I first started to sing, I just swung at it with an axe.

If you want to be taken seriously, always check your fly.

I feel sexy when I get out of the tub - your skin is fresh and you've put up your hair without looking.

I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.

Da Pak was a group out of Chicago. It was a put-together group. We actually met for the first time at this showcase. They were like 'Yo, you should do a song together.' So we did. It just so happened that the name of the song was 'Wolf Pak.' They said, 'Y'all should be a group called Da Pak, and here's a record deal.'

An unlocked door means that, occasionally, you might get a devil come in, but a locked door means you have thousands of angels just walk by.

My step-mom would tell me that she would get complaints from adults that I stared too much at them.

I find it quite boring when you're listening to radio, and it's the same kind of voice that's on every song on the radio. You can't really tell a lot about that singer as a storyteller and about the singer from what they're singing.

Great music is in the ear of the beholder.

I've always been drawn to the ocean.

Everybody is just a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.

You don't have to hold onto the pain to hold onto the memory.

Yes, it's a man's world, but that's all right because they're making a total mess of it. We're chipping away at their control, taking the parts we want. Some women think it's a difficult task, but it's not.

On my own I generally have very messy hair, wear jeans and sneakers.

I get this weird, existential crisis when I'm looking through Instagram - and then I'll realize we work in entertainment. We know all the smoke and mirrors.

I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.

I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody.

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

When I wrote 'Pink Houses,' nobody was talking about that, right? The next thing I know, you can't see the TV without hearing commercials with 'Listen to the heartbeat of America,' or 'Born the American way.' That whole America thing now - I hate it.

Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.

Dogs have boundless enthusiasm but no sense of shame. I should have a dog as a life coach.

I'm always looking for the creative spark. Always.

No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.

I'm learning all the time. I'm evolving all the time as a human being. I'm getting better, I hope, in all of the important ways.

Life is very, very short, and you can choose to live it how you want. You can choose to dumb yourself down and not express yourself just so you can fit in, just so people won't dislike you.

I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.

There's no point in saying anything but the truth.

I feel my duty is to make music.

The fact that the public are mesmerised by Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and all these miserable people makes me laugh because those celebrities are more miserable than the people reading about them for escapism.

Self-management and self-control are the keys to advanced knowledge, and both are difficult to learn without a sense of your own cultural identity.

Good conductors know when to let an orchestra lead itself. Ninety percent of what a conductor does comes in the rehearsal - the vision, the structure, the architecture.

Everyone is allowed to be vulnerable. I think women and men and dogs and cats and ants and aliens can all express themselves and be vulnerable.

Everywhere you go, there's a soundtrack. You can't really quite hear it. It's just a little out of the range of hearing.

I'm a massive fragrance fan - I think fragrance is part of someone's hygiene, and I'm a big believer in leaving an impression through scent.

If you're not sincere with it, you shouldn't say anything at all.

I don't let anyone's insecurities, emotions, or opinions bother me. I know that if I am happy, that's all that matters to me.

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

Being nice is awesome. You have more fun; you meet more people.

He and I were about as compatible as a rat and a boa constrictor.

The ancient Greek philosophers were blonde and blue-eyed and, even then, talked about how their race was mixed with others and how this affected their society negatively. When there were no more natural blondes and no more blue eyes in Greece, they incidentally stopped producing great philosophers.

I just wanted to have a private life.

The only good thing about times of adversity is that you realize who your real friends and fans are - and the rest go away - which in my mind is an OK thing.

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

At the end of the day it's the fans who make you who you are.

The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.

Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present.

When I was working on 'Night Falls Over Kortedala,' I was listening a lot to 'Graceland,' the Paul Simon record. I really got into the lyrics on that album. The opening line is so brilliant, the way he sets the scene.

I think the focus of the media changes. At the moment the more electronic stuff like trip-hop was the flavor of the month, just a little while ago. It all depends on the angle, from which point of view you see it.

I don't understand why you have to wear a wedding ring to warn people off. You should be able to be faithful to that person without anything on your body to show that you are with someone.

That's one of my pet peeves. People always want to put something into a category - this one or that one. You know, a great song is a great song.

People have the power to redeem the work of fools.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

Don't settle for style. Succeed in substance.

There's not a day goes by that I don't appreciate the freedom that I have to make music and tour and spend time with my family.