Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Musicians - Page 20

Maino is an artist that I feel walks what he talks - you can tell what he raps about and what he's been through is very similar. You've got a lot of rappers that rap about what they've heard or seen, but I think Maino is one of the rappers that has actually lived it.

Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.

I'm an outdoors girl - I like to go fishing, riding four-wheelers, hunting.

I don't support terrorism and never have. As a Sri Lankan that fled war and bombings, my music is the voice of the civilian refugee.

Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises.

I've always been really shy. I was always afraid of any kind of confrontation.

There's such an extreme feeling to be in love, especially in quite an emotionally destructive relationship, where you're both kind of really bad for each other, but you love each other so much. Those extreme emotions, I think, can only be described with extreme imagery.

Maybe your weird is my normal. Who's to say?

You grow, you mature, you live, and you learn. You get a little wiser, and you learn better ways to handle things.

Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.

In the face of patriarchy, it is a brave act indeed for both men and women to embrace, rather than shame or attempt to eradicate, the feminine.

When I was a young girl, I wasn't always trying to have curly hair.

The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.

I've always been drawn to the message of 'Be yourself. Love yourself.' I need to be reminded of that all time.

Tomorrow is no place to place your better days.

I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

Full disclosure here - I had a terrible crush on Smokey Robinson, like every other female on the planet.

You don't have to carry a designer bag that costs more than a car to look cool.

Led Zeppelin would never have reformed if he or Jimmy Page were bald.

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

I instinctively dress a bit tougher because I've spent a lot of time in the U.S. and I realised there was a certain image projected of me here. I've always been an absolute rebel. When I was in my teen years I had piercings and wore all black.

Even when I'm in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do.

If you make the mistake of looking back too much, you aren't focused enough on the road in front of you.

If you kill the arts, you kill love, and you kill progress.

I had long hair when I was a teenager.

I have to have an emotional connection to what I am ultimately selling because it is emotion, whether you are selling religion, politics, even a breath mint.

I learn every day what it means to love myself, and I'm constantly figuring out what makes me feel empowered.

It's like the mod thing is happening again.

You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones!

Sometimes, what you're looking for is already there.

I'm of the opinion that as a DJ you must always play what you love and ignore what's 'trendy' because true passion always eclipses what's fashionable. Quality is always fashionable.

It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.

Isolation doesn't bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.

If your record doesn't sell that well, man, who cares? All the satisfaction I need... comes when I step out onstage and see the people. That's awesome. I love that.

Being uncool is being pretty much the coolest you can be.

It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.

On stage, I'm this figure, this actor, who does things that people aren't used to seeing and I relish in that reaction. In real life, though, I play golf, I shop and I walk around with no makeup on and my hair in a ponytail. I may not be the typical middle-aged Joe, but I'm closer to normal than you think.

Being the Queen is not all about singing, and being a diva is not all about singing. It has much to do with your service to people. And your social contributions to your community and your civic contributions as well.

As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.

Communal well-being is central to human life.

I get the same charge from juxtaposition of colors as I do from juxtaposition of chords.

I want to encourage people to be themselves and express themselves however they want.

Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.

All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.

I am committed to glamour.

I was born and raised in the ghetto, on welfare, two minutes from homeless.

I feel like LeBron James is an amazing basketball player, but he's also a community person.

I find fragrance to be such a mood enhancer and definitely a seduction tool.

Sometimes I wake up in the morning and I am like, 'This is a high-top day' or 'This is a bob day,' but when I get my clothes on that's when I see.

Well, yeah, I sang to some songs on the radio or in the shower.

I got a bad habit of creating.

I do take advantage of, you know, feeling sensual and feeling sexy. And I think that is tremendously empowering and is not diminishing in any way. I fell that any woman who is in control, who is in touch with her femininity and sensuality, is a woman that is empowered.

My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.

All I have to say is: Jessica Simpson is the most beautiful woman on the planet!

So many people treat you like you're a kid so you might as well act like one and throw your television out of the hotel window.

True love, to me, is when she's the first thought that goes through your head when you wake up and the last thought that goes through your head before you go to sleep.

It's always amazing when a fan will say you've helped them through some kind of adversity.

I need to travel, of course, with my laptop, so I can do my business on the road.

I see myself at 7:30 in the morning and it's not too pretty.