Quotes by Musicians - Page 12

People always ask me how long it takes to do my hair. I don’t know, I’m never there.
Dolly Parton
So how was Christmas for you guys? Did you all get lots of nice black t-shirts?
Gerard Way
When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight and He'll Win the Whole Thing 'Fore He Enters the Ring There's No Body to Batter When Your Mind Is Your Might So When You Go Solo, You Hold Your Own Hand and Remember That Depth Is the Greatest of Heights and If You Know Where You Stand, Then You Know Where to Land and If You Fall It Won't Matter, Cuz You'll Know That You're Right
Fiona Apple
When dark, it's bright, when brightest, it's gone. When gone for good, so will I be.What am I?
Avi
The sun's down and the moon's pretty - it's time to ramble.
Elvis Presley
What happened to me? I asked myself. Morris's high, smoky voice took me back to my university years, when I thought rich people were evil, a shirt and tie were prison clothes, and life without freedom to get up and go - motorcycle beneath you, breeze in your face, down the streets of Paris, into the mountains of Tibet - was not a good life at all. What happened to me?
Mitch Albom
I think that all women are witches, in the sense that a witch is a magical being. And a wizard, which is a male version of a witch, is kind of revered, and people respect wizards. But a witch, my god, we have to burn them. It’s the male chauvinistic society that we’re living in for the longest time, 3,000 years or whatever. And so I just wanted to point out the fact that men and women are magical beings. We are very blessed that way, so I’m just bringing that out. Don’t be scared of witches, because we are good witches, and you should appreciate our magical power.
Yoko Ono
Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.
Frank Zappa
I'm fairly certain that YOLO is just Carpe Diem for stupid people.
Jack Black
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
Frank Zappa
I don’t talk about my personal life so they [the media] had to make one up for me.
Taylor Swift
I pick up a copy of Newsweek on the plane and immediately notice how biased, slanted, and opinionated all the U.S. newsmagazine articles are. Not that the Euro and British press aren't biased as well--they certainly are--but living in the United States we are led to believe, and are constantly reminded, that our press is fair and free of bias. After such a short time away, I am shocked at how obviously and blatantly this lie is revealed--there is the 'reporting' that is essentially parroting what the White House press secretary announces; the myriad built-in assumptions that one ceases to register after being somewhere else for a while. The myth of neutrality is an effective blanket for a host of biases.
David Byrne
A poem is a naked person....Some people say that I am a poet.
Bob Dylan
That girl is a grade one a-hole with a severe attitudinal problem.
Wild Child
Is adult amusement killing our children, or is killing our children amusing adults?
Marilyn Manson
What does jealousy indicate? Jealousy is love manifested in the physical world. If you are jealous you have a debt to pay; if someone is jealous of you, he has a debt to pay to you.
Petar Dunov
What sort of love is permeated by jealousy? You are jealous because you are unaware that everything you need is inside you.
Petar Dunov
I always knew looking back on the tears would make me laugh, but I never knew looking back on the laughs would make me cry.
Yusuf Islam
I think, therefore I am... confused.
Benjamin Hoff
People are crazy and times are strange,I'm locked in tightI'm out of range,I use to carebut things have changed.
Bob Dylan
The need to document my insanity is an affliction I have not yet cured myself of...
Lydia Lunch
You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
Henry Rollins
When you realize that there's a name and a description for this condition that you thought was insanity, you've identified the problem, and now you can do something about it.
Anthony Kiedis
One of the better definitions of insanity - doing the exact same thing over and over and expecting the result to be different.
Anthony Kiedis
Oh, and I certainly don't suffer from schizophrenia. I quite enjoy it. And so do I.
Emilie Autumn
All the little duckies with their heads in the waterHeads in the waterAll the little duckies with their heads in the waterOh, such sweet little duckies.
Ruta Sepetys
I was surrounded by hundreds of drowned children, heads in the water, their little feet in the air.All the little duckies, with their heads in the waterHeads in the water.It was my punishment. Honor lost. Everything lost.Shame is a hunter.My shame was all around me now.
Ruta Sepetys
Let's swim to the moonLet's climb through the tideSurrender to the waiting worldsThat lap against our side.
Jim Morrison
Water begins to boil in the kettle; it starts as a private, secluded sound, pure as rain, and grows to a steady, solipsistic bubbling.
Amit Chaudhuri
The gutters in the lane overflowed with an odd, languid grace. Water filled the lane; rose from ankle-deep to knee-deep. Insects swam in circles. Urchins splashed about haphazardly, while Saraswati returned from market with a shopping-bag in her hands; insects swam away to avoid this clumsy giant. Her wet footprints printing the floor of the house were as rich with possibility as the first footprint Crusoe found on his island.
Amit Chaudhuri
You are waterI’m waterwe’re all water in different containersthat’s why it’s so easy to meetsomeday we’ll evaporate together.
Yoko Ono
The dream world of sleep and the dream world of music are not far apart. I often catch glimpses of one as I pass through a door to the other, like encountering a neighbor in the hallway going into the apartment next to one’s own. In the recording studio, I would often lie down to nap and wake up with harmony parts fully formed in my mind, ready to be recorded. I think of music as dreaming in sound.
Linda Ronstadt
If you’re not smiling at yourself in the mirror, you probably need to check that the life you’re building is aligned to the life you dreamed for yourself. And if you’re not dreaming, you need to start dreaming.
Alice Bag
You, you may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.
John Lennon
In college, I had a course in Latin, and one day the word "divorce" came up. I always figured it came from some root that meant "divide." In truth, it comes from "divertere," which means "to divert."I believe that. All divorce does is divert you, taking you away from everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you wanted and steering you into all kinds of other stuff, like discussions about your mother's girdle and whether she should marry someone else.
Mitch Albom
There was a gay man who lived nearby when I was growing up,’ Harry recounted. ‘He must have been forty or so, lived alone, and everyone in the neighbourhood knew he was gay. In the winter we threw snowballs at him, shouted “buttfucker” then ran like mad, convinced he would give us one up the backside if he caught us. But he never came after us, just pulled his hat further down over his ears and walked home. One day, suddenly, he moved. He never did anything to me, and I’ve always wondered why I hated him so much.’‘People are afraid of what they don’t understand. And hate what they’re afraid of.
Jo Nesbø
I'm gay above the waist.
Pete Wentz
No, I`ve never thought that I was gay. And that`s not something you think. It`s something you know.
Robert Plant
Being gay is like glitter, it never goes away.
Lady Gaga
A Rainmaker creates value for the benefit of all through commitment.
Jonas Caino
... We [can't] escape the influence of sin in the world, but [do] we have to pay money to see and hear it firsthand?
Chris Heimerdinger
Your stockings prove your virtues.Be certain they are clean and free of tears.
Emilie Autumn
I'm self-taught. I didn't just become a man, it was a decision.
Aiden Shaw
At some point during my research, I came across the term "gender fluid." Reading those words was a revelation. It was like someone tore a layer of gauze off the mirror, and I could see myself clearly for the first time. There was a name for what I was. It was a thing. Gender fluid. Sitting there in front of my computer--like I am right now--I knew I would never be the same. I could never go back to seeing it the old way; I could never go back to not knowing what I was.But did that glorious moment of revelation really change anything? I don't know. Sometimes, I don't think so. I may have a name for what I am now--but I'm just as confused and out of place as I was before. And if today is any indication, I'm still playing out that scene in the toy store--trying to pick the thing that will cause the least amount of drama. And not having much success.
Jeff Garvin
Even when we are confused about someone’s gender, and don’t have a greater awareness of what it means to be trans, we have a choice to respond with kindness rather than cruelty.
C. N. Lester
The first thing you're going to want to know about me is: Am I a boy, or am I a girl?
Jeff Garvin
It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.
Dolly Parton
People err who think my art comes easily to me. I assure you, dear friend, nobody has devoted so much time and thought to compositions as I. There is not a famous master whose music I have not industriously studied through many times.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Well, the way you'd been, old ladyI could see the fear in your windowsUnder your furry crawling browA silver bow rings up in inchesYou were afraid you'd be the devil's red wifeBut it's alright, God dug your danceAnd would have you young and in his harum
Don Van Vliet
Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.
Woody Guthrie
People like me are aware of their so-called genius at ten, eight, nine. . . . I always wondered, ``Why has nobody discovered me?'' In school, didn't they see that I'm cleverer than anybody in this school? That the teachers are stupid, too? That all they had was information that I didn't need? I got fuckin' lost in being at high school. I used to say to me auntie ``You throw my fuckin' poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous, '' and she threw the bastard stuff out. I never forgave her for not treating me like a fuckin' genius or whatever I was, when I was a child. It was obvious to me. Why didn't they put me in art school? Why didn't they train me? Why would they keep forcing me to be a fuckin' cowboy like the rest of them? I was different I was always different. Why didn't anybody notice me? A couple of teachers would notice me, encourage me to be something or other, to draw or to paint - express myself. But most of the time they were trying to beat me into being a fuckin' dentist or a teacher
John Lennon
I love it when people yell at me about the environment and then I tell 'em I'm burning 90% cleaner than them.
Neil Young
Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.
Gil Scott-Heron
So before we end and then beginWe'll drink a toast to how it's beenA few more hours to be completeA few more nights on satin sheetsA few more times that I can sayI've loved these days
Billy Joel
When the north wind blew across the tar ponds, voices were carried away.
Jonathan Campbell
In the South American rainforest, there is a tribe called the Desana, who see the world as a fixed quantity of energy that flows between all creatures. Every birth must therefore engender a death, and every death brings forth another birth. This way, the energy of the world remains complete.When they hunt for food, the Desana know the animals they kill will leave a hole in the spiritual well. But that hole will be filled, they believe, by the Desana hunters when they die. Were there no men dying, there would be no birds or fish being born. I like this idea. Morrie likes it, too. The closer he gets to goodbye, the more he seems to feel we are all creatures in the same forest. What we take, we must replenish."It's only fair," he says.
Mitch Albom
I'm in a squad where I'd rather shoot the C.O than the enemy.- Cooper HawkesKnock it off. -T,C. McQueenYou know what I'm saying, Sir. I mean I never felt like shooting you. -Cooper HawkesStop it, Hawkes. You're making me all misty.-- T.C. McQueen
James Morrison
Real talent harnesses what it has and unlocks what it doesn’t. There is natural ability, there is the discipline that develops natural ability, there is the unending study of one’s craft, and there is the exponential lifting of performance by the selfless combination of efforts.
Ken Goldstein
Above everything else I've done, I've always said I've had more guts than I've got talent.
Dolly Parton
The doc swore she came out screamin' in the key of E.
Dolly Parton