Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Musicians - Page 13

The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.

Let the little fairy in you fly!

I will say, as a woman, when you put a mustache on, you find out a lot of things about yourself.

That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.

I don't have to wait to realize the good old days.

Marriage is an institution, and you must be fully committed to it.

In New York, everyone's really neurotic and talks about themselves all the time.

When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.

People say I have a distorted lens. I think I see things as they really are.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we're even alive at all.

You have a different crowd every night, so you should do a different show to suit them. I tailor the show to their mood.

Every wedding is slightly different from the other. But you always get to meet the funny uncle and the weirdo relatives, and there's always someone trying to beat you up for not playing enough Beatles songs or something.

My entire style of playing was built around somebody else playing guitar with me, a story that, on its own, sounds unfinished.

I think there's always the whole expectation that men can age and look fine, and girls have to be all conscious. But guys can also keep their skin intact.

I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.

Be yourself. Unapologetically.

Guilty pleasure implies that it's something that I feel guilty for watching... people tell me I should feel guilty for watching because I'm too old to watch it, but I don't give a damn: I love everything on Cartoon Network from 'Adventure Time' to 'The Adventures of Gumball', 'Teen Titans'... all those shows that are for my kids, I like those!

I think I would probably die without my eyeliner, but besides that I'm pretty basic.

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.

It's a crazy world!

Being positive is like going up a mountain. Being negative is like sliding down a hill. A lot of times, people want to take the easy way out, because it's basically what they've understood throughout their lives.

Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.

Our ancestors always thought of the worst thing that could happen, and that's why we're alive.

I highly recommend getting older! There's less tendency to people-please.

Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly.

If you don't ask, you don't get.

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

I've always been a firm believer that soul music never dies. The artists we still listen to today, years after their music was first heard are mostly soul artists; Donny Hathaway, Marvin Gaye, Chaka Khan. We still sing along to all of them with our hearts.

You can't get too comfortable and relax, because your world can flip overnight.

Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion.

I found the experience of falling in love or being in love was a death: a death of everything. You kind of watch yourself die in a wonderful way, and you experience for the briefest moment - if you see yourself for a moment through their eyes - everything you believed about yourself gone. In a death-and-rebirth sense.

I admire natural, untouched beauty.

Jazz is about being in the moment.

In 1967 I entered Harvard as a freshman, confident - in the way that only 17-year-olds are - that I could change the world. My major was African Studies, and my plan was to travel to Tanzania, where President Julius Nyerere was creating a government based on democracy and socialism.

You get what you give. What you put into things is what you get out of them.

It's when we become afraid of everything and worried about everything that you are never going to reach your highest potential.

Reading counts as partying, even if you're not enjoying it! Even if someone's forcing you to read, you can find a way to make it into a party if you party hard enough. It just takes more effort and a more advanced approach.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a joke - the fact that Madonna is in before Rush and Kiss. Those two bands have influenced so many groups and people other than in metal.

I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.

My children are my priority and always have been.

I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that.

Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

That's the greatest thing: an experience you can grow from.

My point of view is, I'm just a person, and there are times when I look at other people and think, 'My God, they spend so much time thinking about things that seem so absurd.' But I'm sure people must think the same thing about me.

Globalization is very destructive to our species.

Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.

Certainly, as a guitarist, I was aware of descending chromatic lines and arpeggios long before 1968.

Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then that's what country music is. It's not just songs about getting drunk and leaving your girl.

I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.

I'm grateful for what I've accomplished. I'm grateful for anyone who thinks I accomplished something and says, 'Well he did this; he did that.'

So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

I don't see myself in an ivory tower.

Even in the early stages, you can tell who thinks you're an idiot singing songs someone else has written for you. We never wanted to be two producers and a girl who wears some shoes.

Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.

You can't go through life and leave things the way they are. We can all make a difference, and if I die today, I know I made a difference.

The drama teacher that I had in high school, back in Texas, was the only teacher who didn't kick me out of his class. He turned me on to 'The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan.' I had picked up Dylan with 'Bringing It All Back Home,' and he turned me on to the first couple of albums, which I hadn't heard.

I've got some great stuff in my sports memorabilia collection. But my favorite thing by far is the robe. I actually have a Ric Flair robe with 'the Nature Boy' on the back. That's awesome. When I look at it, it brings back so many memories of my childhood and my teen years.

The hardest thing for - not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge, you know, their own flaws and fears and imperfections and put them out there in the open for people to relate to it.