Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Musicians - Page 15

I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us through fear.

I am Italian. Springsteen's mostly Italian, too. We're both Italians with Dutch names, one of the many things we have in common.

It's hard to be a credible musician as a girl with a decent face. Which sucks. I'm always gonna push to make a record that represents what I like.

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

Believe in yourself when nobody else does.

I love Milan, and I'm not just saying that. It's a city that gives me a great sense of euphoria. I can't explain why, but I feel a special energy there.

Venezuela is incredible, but Caracas? Oh God, I hate it. The sidewalks get smaller every time I go back.

Being a big guy, you face certain challenges. Over time, though, women found excuses to find me attractive.

Women have to harness their power - its absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.

I'm very very happy for my hardships and misfortunes: they build character and make you a better person. Even if I think it's something you have to carry with you, it's definitely something that makes you more empathic towards other people, makes you understand people and relationships so much better.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.

My mom was a source of strength. She showed me by example that women, regardless of how difficult life may get, can do it all.

I've tried to have a regular haircut, but it just pops back up again, so this is the way it's going to be.

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.

I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue.

Where do I begin with 'The Godfather?' It's like explaining why the 'Bible' is so popular. I'll always remember seeing the first one because it was the only time I went to the movies with my grandfather.

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!

You've got to love yourself first. You've got to be okay on your own before you can be okay with somebody else.

If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!

My music is about being strong, even in your vulnerability.

For me, music and life are all about style.

I had a boom box with a dual cassette deck and a mic, so I used to make pause tapes. I think a lot of people started like that because it was all I had. I would just take rap records that I liked and just loop the beat by pressing pause and record and make, like, five minutes of these beats.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I'm not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that's why they identify with me.

I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.

Find out what your gift is and nurture it.

The good ole days weren't always good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.

Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.

Creating the album 'VIBES' has been the biggest life lesson I have ever learned.

When you're a girl, you have to be everything, You have to be dope at what you do, but you have to be super sweet, and you have to be sexy, and you have to be this and you have to be that and you have to be nice, and you have to - it's like, I can't be all of those things at once. I'm a human being.

I'm reading a lot of poetry because it's a lot easier to dip in and dip out when you've got 10 minutes to yourself.

I'm not sorry for who I am.

All flowers in time bend towards the sun, I know you say there's no one for you, But here is one.

The best way to refine an interpretation is by getting out and performing.

One of the secrets of having a long-term relationship is realizing that even if you think the other person's great, at some point, they're going to mess up and annoy you.

Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.

I'm kind of a good girl - and I'm not. I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have sex appeal in my deck of cards. But I like to get people thinking. That's what the stories in my music do.

If you don't live your life, then who will?

I get nervous when I don't get nervous. If I'm nervous I know I'm going to have a good show.

Pneumonia is a disease that often flies under the radar of not just the public but even the global health community. It kills more children under 5 years old every year than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined.

I am blessed to be doing what I do. So if I have to be at a photo shoot, do an interview, or make a TV appearance, I am not going to sit around whining and complaining about how I don't want to get up early or I don't feel like talking.

I know I'm not a buff dude in any sense, but I'm more than comfortable with my body.

A little renovation and reinvention is a positive thing.

Is the casual objectification of women so commonplace that we should all just suck it up, roll over, and accept defeat? I hope not.

I'm a bit of a night owl because that's when I feel the most creative and alive.

I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state.

Marriage has made me a lot happier and I'm deeply in love with my wife, and I thank God for her every day.

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

I think, to me, reality is better than being fake.

The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.

I've always known from the time I was eight years old what I wanted to do. I would have been fairly content to be someone's lead guitar player.

My coming of age was in the '70s. A lot of people look back on it as a grim decade, but I look back on it as a liberating time.

Pop music catches on like a meme. It just takes a little bit of tinder, and it can become a phenomenon. You have to break through that wall a little bit. Why it happens, I don't really know.

I wear jeans and a T-shirt sometimes. I just like clothes - since the first time I can remember, like age ten or eleven; I was just obsessed with music and clothes. Just like a lot of people in England from my generation.

I like California but I'm dyed-in-the-wool Oklahoma. I see a deer in L.A., and everybody's standing around it taking pictures. Back home, that's the enemy!

God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.

You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.

They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.

There's a lot of optimism in changing scenery, in seeing what's down the road.