Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Musicians - Page 5

My inspiration is R. Kelly, Michael Jackson, and Prince - for the vocals, anyway.

The thing for me about Ayn Rand is that her philosophy is the only one applicable to the world today - in every sense. If you take her ideas, then take them farther in your own mind, you can find answers to pretty well everything on an individual basis.

With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

I was one of those weird kids who didn't really speak or smile. I remember my teachers would call home and ask if everything was fine at home because I would never smile. Then I got into this phase, from maybe fourth to eighth grade, where my personality just did a 180.

The music has a very strong escapist quality to it. In the moment where you feel like you need to escape, or when you are escaping, that's a good time to listen to 'When the Night.'

Don't ever play yourself.

It was always remarkable to me how ignorant the labels were of the listening habits of their own customers, and how obstinate they were in denying those habits and then trying to essentially alter those habits instead of retooling their business to adapt to them.

Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.

When you don't come from struggle, gaining appreciation is a quality that's difficult to come by.

I still love the skinny jeans thing and I wear my favorite leather jacket constantly. I like being kind of a rock star. I love that I can feel comfortable in a small dress or I can feel comfortable wearing a baggy T-shirt.

At the end of the day, I'm a fan of great stories and great songs.

And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.

Whenever I've had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that's when you learn.

For a long time, soul music was maybe one of my favorite kinds of music.

I'm here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don't follow what you've been told you're supposed to do.

Some of us get a feeling when we hear music and we feel music, and you want to figure out how to continue to feel that.

Power to the peaceful!

The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.

'They' is... stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of 'they.' You might have a personal 'they.' They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don't like winners; they don't like people who's blessed. So everybody's got a different 'they.'

There's a finite amount of time on this planet for each of us. Sometimes, the only way we figure out how to deal with that reality - knowing that there will be an end to every story, and you don't know how many chapters are left in your book - is by living in denial.

You can't move mountains by whispering at them.

The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative.

I'm a good man, and I'm gonna become a better man.

I can't believe this is happening to me. The weirdest thing is it was just a dream, and now it's actually real. It's hard to believe sometimes.

When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.

I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.

I believe your atmosphere and your surroundings create a mind state for you.

I don't want to be famous or recognizable. I don't want to be critiqued about the way that I look on the Internet... I've been writing pop songs for pop stars for a couple years and see what their lives are like, and that's just not something I want.

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I'm consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death.

Surround yourself with good people. Whether they're the best or not, people are capable of learning if they've got good hearts and they're good souls.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

Twenty-three is old. It's almost 25, which is like almost mid-20s.

There are so many great artists that are doing interesting things, that I don't want to focus on boring people.

My advice to anyone with a dream is to never stop pursuing it.

People take pictures of the Summer, just in case someone thought they had missed it, and to proved that it really existed.

I have different hats; I'm a mother, I'm a woman, I'm a human being, I'm an artist and hopefully I'm an advocate. All of those plates are things I spin all the time.

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

I am overly ambitious, because I realize it can be done.

I'm actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, 'Man, I said too much.' It's hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.

The way you start to break down systemic racism is to start building individual relationships with people who are not like you.

When adversity strikes, that's when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on.

Oh yeah, I'm literally walking through my house now looking down and there are maybe, like, 15 pairs on the floor. For real. Real talk. It's just simplicity. They're something I wear every day. Before I got a deal with them, I was wearing some type of Vans all the time. I would just order them by the box, like, 10 at a time.

I'm sensitive and get easily upset and insulted.

I don't think I'll ever feel perfectly balanced, but I feel like I'm figuring it out, and I'm surrounded by really wonderful people that want to see me succeed and be happy. Life is wild.

Life is a precious gift - a gift we often take for granted until it is threatened.

More idiots should just shut their mouths.

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

I'm a Honey G fan. She can spit some vibes on one of my songs; she's got rhymes for days! She's gangster. I love her.

There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll find.

I think Freddie Mercury is probably the best of all time in terms of a rock voice. There was a vulnerability to it, his technical ability was amazing, and so much of his personality would come out through his voice. I'm not even a guy to buy Queen records, really, and I still think he's one of the best.

I think that as you evolve as a person and an artist, your creative process evolves and changes, too.

I literally have a massive database of cat sounds.

Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.

If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.

Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.

We don't put limits on ourselves.

I'm not interested in making money. It's just that with my talent, I'm cursed with it.

'Stay With Me,' for me, is my own personal anthem to the 'walk of shame...' that we've all gone through. It's the feeling after a one-night stand of not wanting that person to leave, even if you don't love them and don't even like them. It's about having that body next to you.