Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Musicians - Page 4

Everything will be okay. I have a sticker on my laptop that says that.

Sometimes you have to burn yourself to the ground before you can rise like a phoenix from the ashes.

Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.

You just have to find that thing that's special about you that distinguishes you from all the others, and through true talent, hard work, and passion, anything can happen.

Sometimes, if I really just need to unwind and kind of watch something that isn't gonna stress me out or have drama in it, I watch 'Spongebob.'

There's a certain vibe in my hometown; Buffalo is a city that has no illusions.

Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand.

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

I am a laptop boy. People say: 'Where's your studio?' I say: 'It's in my laptop, in my rucksack.'

Band members have a special bond. A great band is more than just some people working together. It's like a highly specialized army unit, or a winning sports team. A unique combination of elements that becomes stronger together than apart.

I don't think immigrants are that threatening to society at all. They're just happy they've survived some war somewhere.

My Dad is my hero.

One of the most beneficial things I've ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.

I'm the most boring person to talk to.

I can't judge myself by 'God Only Knows.' No one writes songs as good as that.

Sometimes if you don't take the easy option, it'll pay dividends in the long run.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it. I'm never satisfied.

I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.

I'm lucky my wife is a strong woman. She's one of the stronger people I've ever met. It's hard for me to be away, but I know my home life is fine because my wife is there.

It's good to be proud of your heritage and your culture, but pride can be perverted.

According to my definition of God, I'm not an atheist. Because I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes, I'm looking at God. Whenever I'm listening to something, I'm listening to God.

Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

If bearing a reputation as a weirdo is all it takes to be a genius, I'm a shoo-in. Come to think of it, half the people I know are geniuses - the other half, peculiarly enough, idiots.

I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.

I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.

I hate death; it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless.

I try to keep it real. I don't have time to worry about what I'm projecting to the world. I'm just busy being myself.

Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

People often say I have so much energy, that I never stop; but that's what it takes to accomplish your goals.

We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music comes from. And romantic poetry. And bad novels.

The only two things that scare me are God and the IRS.

I find it a lot healthier for me to be someplace where I can go outside in my bare feet.

Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right.

Keep the masses fed and entertain them to keep them in line.

Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be.

Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.

I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.

'Sexy' doesn't have to come with the price tag of being dumb.

I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay.

Your political views really denote your spiritual views.

I'm actually not a particularly negative person, but I feel like most things are better when they're not actualized. The motivation that comes from wanting something is so much more driving of people than actually getting it.

People tend to repeat the same quotes at me that I said when I was 23. And of course, you say things then, and sometimes they're ill-advised.

I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it.

I'm kind of obsessed with laser guns.

The violin sings.

I've realized you can use a fork as a spoon if you use it rapidly enough.

It takes so much strength to say to your ego, 'You know what? You're going to keep me lonely, so I have to ignore you.'

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.

Nothing is black or white, nothing's 'us or them.' But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world. There's incredible acts of kindness and bravery, and in the most unlikely places, and it gives you hope.

I want my paintings to look like they were found in a garage. If they get a scratch or a hole in them, it just becomes part of the painting.

I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.

My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.

There's nothing wrong with the screaming style of singing, and I'll be the first to admit that it conveys an emotion. But I'm getting older, and I can't scream and shout about the same things anymore. The songs I'm writing with Stone Sour call for a lighter, different approach.

No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always.