Quotes by Musicians - Page 23

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.
Jim Morrison
Whatever gets you through the night
John Lennon
It's always wrong to hate but it's never wrong to love.
Lady Gaga
America is a young dumb country and it needs all kinds of help. America is a dumb puppy with big teeth that bite and hurt. And we take care of America. We hold America to our bosom; we feed America, we make love to America. There wouldn't be an America if it wasn't for black people. So you have some dedicated black Americans who will die a million deaths to save America. And this is home for us. We don't know really about Africa. We talk it in a romantic sense, but America is it. And so, America is always going to be okay as long as black people don't totally lose their mind, cause we'll pick up the pieces and turn it into a new dance.
Abiodun Oyewole
Greed, envy, sloth, pride and gluttony: these are not vices anymore. No, these are marketing tools. Lust is our way of life. Envy is just a nudge towards another sale. Even in our relationships we consume each other, each of us looking for what we can get out of the other. Our appetites are often satisfied at the expense of those around us. In a dog-eat-dog world we lose part of our humanity.
Jon Foreman
Do you see? The story I have to tell is so small, of the people who stayed when everyone else fled.
Brian Francis Slattery
There are two conversations going on at the same time: the story and a conversation about how the story is being told.
David Byrne
A vision is best presented as a story that people can relate to.
Jim Kerr
And the only sign of life is the ticking of the pen, introducing characters to memory like old friends.
Fish
Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell.
Charles de Lint
The daily mindfulness, consistency, and discipline is ultimately more important than the amount of time. In other words, it’s more about quality than quantity. If you use 15 minutes effectively, you’ll accomplish more than you would be able to with two hours of unfocused, random actions.
Simon S Tam
This obsession is a curious thing. Sometimes wonder about the merits of devoting so much of myself to a singular climbing objective. Much of the time it beats me down, leaves me hanging my head in despair. But then there are the moments that bring me to life. When excitement wells up inside my chest in a way that doesn’t happen in every day life. Today my fingertips were cracked and bleeding. I made no progress despite great conditions. Now I am on the ground and can hardly contain my excitement to get back on the wall. It’s a crazy rollercoaster and I owe my family and partners a great deal for encouraging me through it all.
Tommy Caldwell
You are not a burden, an accident, or a mistake. You are meant for amazing things that you can't even imagine for yourself.
Lacey Sturm
Till we recognize what’s sick and messed up about ourselves this world is gonna stay sick and messed up.
Lacey Sturm
We are leashed by societal norms, defined by our willingness to conform, but limited only by our imagination.
Michael Holbrook
Live life as an observer but not a spectator. Learn the rules, get in the game, break some rules. Live. Experience. There is no exhilaration to be achieved sitting on the bench.
Michael Holbrook
You’re going to make something wonderful of yourself. I promise.You’re doing just fine.
Charlotte Eriksson
Turn lemons into lemonaid
Kevin Cronin
Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors.
Fred Rogers
It is easy to give without loving yet DIFFICULT TO LOVE without GIVING.After all Love is a Verb, it must be demonstrated genuinely.
Robert Junior
It is easy to give without loving yet DIFFICULT TO LOVE without GIVING.After all Love is a Vern, it must be demonstrated genuinely.
Robert Junior
Are you crazy? The last thing you want to do is make a scene." "Well, I'm gonna make a movie if you don't show me some respect.
Sister Souljah
You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice. If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill. I will choose a path thats clear. I will choose Freewill.
Neil Peart
If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice.
Neil Peart
But he had been the victim of the world’s most common crime—his youth had been kidnapped by a thing called time. It had likely also been raped, dismembered, and buried somewhere never to be seen again
Aurelio Voltaire
I feel ugly” I said and you looked at me as if I spoke a different language. There are things you will never understand and if there were words to describe the rapture that takes place in my head from time to time I would put my hand in front of your eyes to protect you from all the ugliness in the world. I kept my eyes on the streetlights outside the window and you kissed every inch of my body as if you could kiss the pain away.
Charlotte Eriksson
People keep asking what I do for a living and I keep saying that I don’t believe in making a living. That it’s a concept that has been twisted. I tell them I believe in making a life and money is a distracting object if there’s anything left at the end of the day and I just want to go on well. Make it through the day. So I smile and raise my glass and they laugh and take my hand, saying ”here’s to the youth”, pointing at me. And I might just be youngand naivefor I still believe in the freedom of choiceof how to spend your life.So they toast to the youth, who still think she’s free, and that’s all fine by me.
Charlotte Eriksson
When you think your life is falling apart, it's usually falling together in disguise.
Charlotte Eriksson
How naive and foolish the young are to imagine that they understand the loneliness of great age, the outliving of your contemporaries, anyone to whom your century of memory might make any sense.
Bill Holm
Youth is feeling seventy years old, misanthropic, and ready to die at fifteen
Nikolai Grozni
So they gave me love in form of poison and tiny little pills, programming my emotions, teaching me how to feel. To act correct and talk correct and answer without knowing the question, because that, my dear, is how you get love. Yes that, dear youth, is how you'll be loved. I tried to medicate my own fucked up little mind with chemicals and adrenaline, tasting sweeter every night, shaking louder every time. Sitting wide awake in bed until the world disappears, writing poetry to concentrate on something real while waiting for the love to arrive.I've been looking for it night after night, waiting patiently for it to show up, maybe somewhere in between the state of awake and asleep, alive and not so alive, sober and not so sober.(I lost track of the difference somewhere in between.)
Charlotte Eriksson
I don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore, like I always thought I would.
Charlotte Eriksson
Once heaven is done with grandma, we'd like her back, thanks.
Mitch Albom
The path to heaven runs through miles of clouded hell.
Imagine Dragons
They teach you, as children, that you might go to heaven. They never teach you that heaven might come to you.
Mitch Albom
Our God is an awesome God, he reigns from Heaven above, the most high God of all time.
Werley Nortreus
Why do we have to die to got to heaven? The earth is already in space.
Prince Ea
I'm gonna love you Till the heavens Stop the rain.I'm gonna Love you Till the stars Fall from the sky For you and I
Jim Morrison
There's just something about the way he sings. It makes me think of when it snows outside, and the fire is warm, and Podo is telling us a story while you're cooking, and there's no place I'd rather be--but for some reason I still feel... homesick.
Andrew Peterson
If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there: first, to meet some I had not thought to see there; second, to miss some I had expected to see there; and third, the greatest wonder of all, to find myself there.
Billy Joel
You shouldn't look too far to find people to care about or people who will care about you. Because if you stop looking, the people who do care will come looking for you.
Emma Blackery
...but I like who I became just fine. That's the way life is. We all try to make something out of our lives, and some of us are just luckier than others.
Jimmy Buffett
Just a perfect day, problems all left alone.
Lou Reed
Here's what I think I'm having trouble with: this is what happiness is. When I was a kid, I thought I'd just get happier and happier as I got older, and have more things to be happy about. I based this theory on observation of select adults. The problem with my results is that I couldn't tell the difference then between happy and fake-happy. Now I know you pretend to be just frigging ecstatic over everything, maybe because you're so glad it's not worse.
Emma Bull
I wake up exhausted it's not morning. It's back to sleep to re-dream me. We're alone and we're happy. But there you are, angry with me
Tegan Quin
A falling star fell from your heart and landed in my eyes.I screamed aloud, as it tore through them, and now it's left me blind.The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out.You left me in the dark.No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight.In the shadow of your heart.And in the dark, I can hear your heartbeat.I tried to find the sound.But then it stopped, and I was in the darkness,So darkness I became.I took the stars from my eyes, and then I made a map.And knew that somehow I could find my way back.Then I heard your heart beating, you were in the darkness too.So I stayed in the darkness with you.
Florence Welch
Conscious living allows us to become the composers and conductors of our lives.
Serge Mazerand
Awareness is the enemy of sanity, for once you hear the screaming, it never stops.
Emilie Autumn
Home is wherever I'm with you. Home is where I'm alone with you.
Alex Ebert
My home will never be a place, but a state of mind, which I find through my music.
Charlotte Eriksson
I ran, and I just kept running.tI wasn’t going to stop until I got back to my family; I wasn’t going to stop until I got home.
Embee
I used to think it was mere homesickness, then I started getting it at home.
John Lennon
Home can be the Pennsylvania TurnpikeIndiana's early morning dewHigh up in the hills of CaliforniaHome is just another word for you
Billy Joel
Home is in here [tapping temple]. Where you live is just a geographical preference.
Lemmy Kilmister
It’s just as hard to go back to a place you once left, as it is to leave it again.
Charlotte Eriksson
He has a traditional shopper's DNA, an eye for freshness and appearance, and a consistent sense of a home to go back to.
Amit Chaudhuri
I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.
Mitch Albom
Home is where my habits have a habitat
Fiona Apple
It doesn’t matter how many times you leave, it will always hurt to come back and remember what you once had and who you once were. Then it will hurt just as much to leave again, and so it goes over and over again. Once you’ve started to leave, you will run your whole life.
Charlotte Eriksson
Whiteness is the color of death, you know, not black. Wetness is life, the breeder and shaper of life. In the beginning the sun was black. So all light was absorbed before it had a chance to return. And our dreams, then, were empty.
Jim Carroll