Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Musicians - Page 16

I was so enthralled watching 'Guys and Dolls' and learning about the Rat Pack.

If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.

I'm still learning how to be comfortable touring. I haven't found that balance yet.

The choices that we make aren't always perfect but it's ok... It's part of the journey.

One of my pet peeves is when people think that pop guys go country when they can't make it in pop anymore.

Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.

Every weird thing about you is beautiful and makes life interesting.

Two halves don't make a whole. Two wholes make a whole. In my relationship, I was giving myself away to make the relationship better, but in actuality, wasn't doing better by doing that. I became less of a man.

People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it -ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.

It's all kind of a big illusion: the white picket fence and the perfect marriage and the kids. Check that box off, check that box off, and move forward.

I didn't like the way I looked in pictures - when I saw myself on a digital camera, I was like, 'Eesh.'

My dad always used to encourage me to dress weird.

I'm willing to role the dice with my career to be different.

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

With our love, we could save the world.

Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.

We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming.

That's what hip-hop is: It's sociology and English put to a beat, you know.

You can't achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice.

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.

I never stop reading. I read everything, and I read every day. If you never read anything, be curious. Curiosity is the true foundation of education, reading things that we've factually already agreed on, and I love reading books. With that said, it's more important that you ask the question 'why.'

My dad liked to boil a squirrel head and suck the brains out the nose. Smaller than a chicken, bigger than a rat.

There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.

Violet speaks Spanish and understands it. She loves Cuban food! My mom is very good at teaching her about our culture, whether it be the food or Spanish or explaining to her that she's Cuban.

I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.

When Florida Georgia Line and Nelly put out the 'Cruise' remix, it brought so many more people to country music.

I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck's a little bit bent and it's a little bit out of tune. I want to work and battle it and conquer it and make it express whatever attitude I have at that moment. I want it to be a struggle.

Some men do think I'm a psycho bunny-boiler.

Depending on the story that you're telling, you can be relatable to everybody or nobody. I try and tell everybody's story.

I'm a multi-faceted woman and person, like all women are - there's no black and white. We have shades of grey in the middle. And even many more colours that other people don't see!

Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on, which would play for a while and finish.

I think Angelina Jolie has done amazing, amazing things, and the international adoption rate just since her has skyrocketed. It's unbelievable.

We live in a very chaotic world that sometimes we - it just seems like a mess. One of the reasons why we listen to music, and to great classical music in particular, is that everything is in an order and in a place and has a beauty that you see in nature, that you see and that people look for when they look for God.

It's strange - there's a public persona of me that does nothing for me: the side of me where it's 'US Weekly,' where 12 cars sit outside my house because of who I married. That side never shuts off. I would like that to shut off sometimes, yes.

Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.

For me, social media is a one-way deal. It's like all the traffic goes one direction and I don't care how many people follow me, I don't care how many people like what I do, give me a thumbs up or whatever it is. I am here to share a piece of information that I've decided is relevant to our relationship as musician and audience member.

If there's one thing I'm good at, it's gathering people together to do something fun.

I feel like if you don't put too much expectations and too much high hopes into things, everything will fall into place.

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

Freedom is just another word: It seems to get truer the older I get.

Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

I am so grateful for all the love and support I've had from people around the world.

To understand me, you have to meet me and be around me. And then only if I'm in a good mood - don't meet me in a bad mood.

They say a midget standing on a giant's shoulders can see much further than the giant. So I got the whole rap world on my shoulders, they trying to see further than I am.

I always feel like it's two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that's step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

Never be ashamed of what you feel. You have the right to feel any emotion that you want, and to do what makes you happy. That's my life motto.

Before every show, I eat half a rotisserie chicken.

My days are whatever I want them to be.

Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.

There's so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we're going to get through it. Just be strong.

Love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forever more it will go on undefeated. I'm also a very loving person.

Reggae has a philosophy, you know? It's not just entertainment. There's an idea behind it, a way of life behind the music, which is a positive way of life, which is a progressive way of life for better people.

Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you can handle, and if you come out the other end with some wisdom, then it's not such a bad thing.

I'm really stubborn, and I'm okay with that.

I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.

With marriage and fatherhood, I've finally found two fixed points in my life. They've taught me patience. They've also taught me that I don't need to feel guilty about being happy. My emotional seasons are less extreme.

With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. We did not want to come off like white kids trying to play black music from 100 years ago so a great way to distract them was by dressing in red, white and black.