Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Singers - Page 13

I never felt like I had a surface image to rely on that people would like - I always felt like my music would not be very fancy music, my voice is not very fancy, there is nothing hiding me from the audience.

I am the infinite sea, and all worlds are but grains of sand upon my shore.

I was slightly brain damaged at birth, and I want people like me to see that they shouldn't let a disability get in the way. I want to raise awareness - I want to turn my disability into ability.

I can't speak to being a force for change, but I take it and wear it proudly. I'll never deny it or be one of those people who are like, "I'm just trying to do my best..." No! I'm all about total world domination.

People change all the time whether you like it or not.

I think teenagers just don't have the persistence to pretend to like something they don't anymore. I used to do that - make myself like stuff that didn't immediately appeal to me. When you're 17 and checking out John Cage records from the library. It's not like it's got the hooks of a Ramones record, or a Beach Boys record. But at the same time, you're like, I know there's something in here that I'm supposed to understand. And then eventually you find it.

I enjoy just being around my family and my loved ones. It's just the simple things.

I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do was sing. I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on.

You don't have to push or pull or fight or win, the struggle is illusory. Sometimes or rather, all times, you just have to be.

I love the idea of the winter rose that's sort of sleeping underneath the soil. Underneath all the snow is this plant that was growing and developing and could present itself as this beautiful flower in this time where everything else around it is very barren.

The pandemic has affected every single field and part of life globally including the entertainment field.

You can't be unique any way. Music is made from seven notes. You will always come back to something. Even if you think you are unique, you will come back to something that existed before you were doing what you are doing.

I'm a big believer that there's a reason for everything. I'm a hopeless optimist.

I don't know what I want, but I know what I don't want: I don't want to just repeat myself.

I want to declare to you today: Jesus died to make you holy. It is possible for you to live a life without bondage to sin.

God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we're small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

I love to sleep because I need the rest, but I hate to miss something. I would love to be able to take a pill that I wouldn't have to sleep. So, sometimes what keeps me up at night is just that I don't want to say good-bye to that day. And at the same time, I love to start the next day. I think I'm essentially a very unsettled person.

I'd rather be called lightweight than serious any day.

My secrets must be poetic to be believable.

I don't know why but when i look in your eyes, I feel something that seems so right.

Everyone has a spectrum of masculinity and femininity inside them. In every individual, a war of misogyny is raging. Every man is repressing and oppressing the femininity within themselves, raising up male values as governing values. Because that's what we've been taught to do, just as every woman has. Misogyny isn't just something that affects women. It affects men.

There are some things around us that are not actually useful. I didn't know that before. It's very new for me to understand. That became my way of writing: I can see also the new myself.

Because as an only child, you have your own little world.

I laid my country music aside for quite a while... because bluegrass audiences didn't care to hear it. But it just kept haunting me.

Pain is part of how I get inspiration and part of how I gain wisdom on life. I guess the point I'm trying to make is that I don't transform it, I just let it be. I kind of let it move through me, let it consume me and I let it take me over and hurt me, and I let it go away when it's ready to go away and I understand that it's just part of the process.

I don't think Bono decided to be ambitious, he just is. But if this country ever ran out of electricity, just shove a plug up his hole and it would run for a week.

I feel like pain is the quickest way to relate to someone because everybody has been through that and everybody has had a heartbreak.

The older I get the less I see spirituality as an accomplishment. It seems to me to be mostly a matter of letting go and being willing to receive the special gifts God desires to give to us in His timing.

I've learned in my older age how to let it go when things don't work out, because something incredible that I don't know about yet is probably right around the corner.

I've never wanted to be a liar because truth heals me.

Love the woods and nature and the water and animals. Stop the BS with poaching and hunting. Preservation is critical.

You see what kills your body but you don't see what kills your soul.

If you get the basics right, you can freshen things up, you don't want to just regurgitate the past. But we gotta stay true to our historic selves.

I'm not really good at hiding pain or taking something and transforming it into something good. When those things come along, I really try to just sit with them and let it run its course because it's necessary to feel both sides of the coin.

I'm not a stickler for appropriateness.

Words can never really help you say, what you want them to anyway. And words can never really help you see, what you really want to be.

The biggest takeaway from a memoir is that you have to play fair. Within the first draft, I was writing very angrily because I had a lot of resentment and a lot to process. Through revision is where a lot of learning happened and a lot of forgiveness happened.

I write songs by sitting around in bars, so drinking songs are a little obvious. It's surprising that I don't write entirely drinking songs, since I am, in fact, drinking while writing the song. Drinking and love are the two principal sources of pleasure outside of music. There's only so many sources of pleasure, really. That's about it. Well, there are other arts as well. But none of them are as pleasurable as music, on a physical level.

Music should not be a contest, it should be an individual thing that each band is putting out from within themselves.

I have to get inspired by something that touches my soul, or rocks my soul.

We all assume the worst the best we can.

Haters keep on hating, cause somebody's gotta do it.

I toured for about 2 1/2 years on twentythree and then I took about a year off. I really just spent some good quality time by myself at my house, cooking, watching movies, hanging with my friends, and family. I just really needed a chance to get away from the music for a minute and decompress.

It's easier to believe in yourself after someone else has believed in you first.

You have no idea how expensive it is to look this cheap.

Happy is the Heart that still feels Pain

Sometimes it takes some time out on your own to find your way back home.

I've always been singing and making noise. I used to do that all the time when I was a kid. My mom would get very frustrated with me because I would just sit around and make noises.

I think the one thing for me that's been working is just authenticity.

What was freely given to me, I freely give.

For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide.

The only way to change the future is to change the present.

If you start out with a song sounding like Britney Spears, and you end up with a song sounding like Pauline Oliveros, you'd better have pretty good liner notes explaining what on earth you mean.

There's part of me that is a strict materialist.

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.

I can't talk about my singing. I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?

In fact, it was my singing that helped me place so high in the Miss America contest. If it just depended on beauty and figure, I wouldn't have done so well.

If we are going to teach the world to stop hating the different, the other, then we’re going to have to start with children.

I think, a secret love is something none of your friends would understand. And it's like a fairy tale, but more serious.

I believe that you can change a life with just one word.