Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Musicians - Page 12

Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.

Maybe I'm too young to keep good love from going wrong, but tonight you're on my mind, so you never know.

Time is long but life is short.

The more we take the less we become, the fortune of one man means less for some.

In a way, the most political thing you can do is be yourself.

I'm a very strong person, and I think that's why, actually, I find it really infuriating when I read, 'She had a nervous breakdown' or 'She's not very mentally stable, just a weak, frail little creature.'

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn't believe in.

I grew up in east Tennessee, and everybody knew everybody's business.

I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.

I made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary.

I feel like I'm kind of lazy, but I keep the yard looking good.

You have to have a sense of humor about life to get through it.

I can pull off anything; I have the height and the attitude. The only thing I can't wear is a leotard, but I can wear anything else.

I think to say that meditation is helpful to artists is true and it's great, but it's also essentially helpful to any kind of process of, just, life.

Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand it. The music can connect us to our earlier selves and to our better selves-to-come. It can remind us of where we fit on the time line of human achievement, an ultimate value of art.

I want to be a vampire. They're the coolest monsters.

I'd like to end up sort of unforgettable.

Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it. You find that out really fast.

Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

As a country singer, there is only one place you dream of playing in your lifetime, and that is the Grand Ole Opry House.

It is better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite.

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.

What the world needs is an Emergency Boss. An Emergency Czar. An Emergency Commander. A true Master Of Disaster. One person completely responsible for the anticipation, immediate reconnaissance, and urgent execution of rescue and relief efforts around the world.

I just find things that work and embellish them.

You learn a lot when you're barefoot. The first thing is every step you take is different.

Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.

I'm not a woman. I'm a force of nature.

You make different colors by combining those colors that already exist.

That's the thing about awards - it's for the people who do all the hard work behind the scenes. An award is just a clap at them.

Ego is the great enemy. Ego will hold you back every single time.

Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.

'The Beatles' did whatever they wanted. They were a collection of influences adapted to songs they wanted to write. George Harrison was instrumental in bringing in Indian music. Paul McCartney was a huge Little Richard fan. John Lennon was into minimalist aggressive rock.

There are so many beautiful things that are a part of the world, and I've always looked at life that way; I've always tried to put on a smile and a brave front, not just for my kids but in my own life and all the difficulties that I've gone through.

When I go on Japanese Airlines, I really love it because I like Japanese food.

We're not arrogant, we just believe we're the best band in the world.

I think scars are like battle wounds - beautiful, in a way. They show what you've been through and how strong you are for coming out of it.

I'm just living life and enjoying it. Alive, kicking, and doing good. That's what a real winner is.

You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.

Most companies that are successful listen to people and see what they want and they make that. So when I used to make songs, I'd make mixtapes. The public would tell me what they like and then I would make songs based on what they like. That's how I knew 'Ridin' Dirty' was going to be big - they told me they liked this kind of music.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?

You cannot define a person on just one thing. You can't just forget all these wonderful and good things that a person has done because one thing didn't come off the way you thought it should come off.

I am a clinical zombie.

That's all I could ever hope for, to have a positive effect on women. 'Cos women are powerful, powerful beings. But they're also the most doubtful beings. They'll never know - we'll never know - how powerful we are.

I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.

It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.

In my head, I actually think my songs are pop songs. I think, 'Damn, that's a pop song!' I can practice in front of the mirror with my hairbrush for as long as I want to. But when it finally comes out, it sounds avant-garde to people.

Most of my songs are about Jesus. Most of my songs are about the idea that there is salvation, and that there is a Savior. But I won't mention his name in a song just to get a cheap play.

Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different years. 'Odelay' was the first time I actually got to go in the studio and record a piece of music in a continuous linear fashion, although that was written over a year.

I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.

Another thing that was unique about working on this stuff was that I was engineering it. I used many of the things I had learned while I was away from the band. It sort of vindicated my decision to leave in '87.

My aunt Ruth Brown was a jazz musician. I got hooked on it at a young age, understanding what John Coltrane was doing playing two notes on the saxophone at the same time, which is impossible.

Stand up and face your fears, or they will defeat you.

No, I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot.

I'm your knight in shining armor. I'm here to save you from Linkin Park.

Disco is the first technology music. And what I mean is that 'disco' music is named after discs, because when technology grew to where they didn't need a band in the clubs, the DJ played it on a disc.

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.

I like generals. I like Napoleon. I like strategy. The majority of them are praised for mass destruction, but it's exciting to see how it comes to the mind mentally.

One of the very few things that I actually read about myself on blogs that got to me was people saying, 'Ne-Yo doesn't do R&B music anymore.' Just because I stepped off the porch to explore doesn't mean I don't live in that house anymore.