20th-century Musician Quotes

We are stronger than we think we are.
We have courage that we do not recognize until we need it.
We are equal to challenges that we haven't even imagined yet

The most self-destructive thought that any person can have is thinking that he or she is not in total control of his or her life. That's when, 'Why me?' becomes a theme song.

Off we go into the wild blue yonder,
Climbing high into the sun.

Robert MacArthur Crawford

Music is a Place to take Refuge. It's a Sanctuary from Mediocrity and Boredom. It's Innocent and it's a Place you can loose yourself in Thoughts, Memories and Intricacies..

I was lucky enough to write songs that carry a good beat and tell a real story that people could feel was their story, too — something that old people or the kids could both enjoy.

Antoine Fats Domino, Jr.

You have to sniff out joy, keep your nose to the joy-trail.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Yes, confidence was knowing I could do anything. But, I realized, confidence must always be rooted in work. In sweat. In pain-good pain. And in honesty.

For your information, I am NOT overreacting. I'm REACTING. That's different. It's important to react when you're pissed off.

He had been someone before. That person had been the result of a lifetime of choices, good and bad. And like it or not, he was drawing closer to that identity now. Not the freedom of infinite variety, but the tyranny of a decision made, a path walked, a life lived. What if he didn't like the view

Where I come from we say that rhythm is the soul of life, because the whole universe revolves around rhythm, and when we get out of rhythm, that's when we get into trouble.

Babatunde Olatunji

A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous. Got me?

Captain Beefheart

A fat pink cloud hangs over the hill Unfolding like a rose. If you hold my hand and sit real still You can hear the grass as it grows.

John La Touche (lyricist)

I love, I love, I love, killer whales, and I love mangos, and Iggy Pop too, I love Iggy Pop, and eating, getting up in the morning, and going swimming, and taking a good shit, and I love all of you too! I love John Frusciante who's back in the band. Who loved Dave Navarro?(boos)That's what I thought!

I should know who I am by now.
I walk the record stands somehow.
Thinking of winter.
Your name is the splinter inside me.
While I wait.

There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.

Eugene Chadbourne

I don't sing my mother tongue
No, this is not a love song

Still I only feel alive when the view is flashing, alarms going off in my head...
I want to grab you and just kiss you; maybe I should sit down. No sense in cashing us now.
Yeah, I only feel alright when the view is flashing, bombs going off in my head...
I want to grab you, want to scream at you, no icing me down. The party's crashing us now. The party's crashing us now.

And I realized that the only purpose to revolution is to be able to love who you want, how you want, when you want and where you want...

Hype. What a marvellous, misused word. If you hype something and it succeeds, you're a genius, it wasn't hype; if you hype it and it fails, then it's just a hype.

In the 1960s, the record companies seemed to sign anything with long hair; if it was a sheepdog, so what.

I don't know him from a can of paint. I'm 15 years deep. That's how you attack a king? You attack moi? Come on, man. You got to come correct. You the laughing stock. People are like, 'You can't be serious.

There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.

Maybe I should write some songs like Mozart
'Cause many people don't believe rap is an art.

I opened the door for a lot of people, and they just ran through and left me holding the knob.

I see love, like art, as an obsession. Maybe that's an overly romantic view of human existence, but I'm an overly romantic human being. If love, like rock and roll, doesn't consume me 24-7, it's not love. It can be respect, appreciation, admiration, wonderment, it can be a world of glory and a lifetime of peace, but I can't call it love. Love burns me and confuses me. Love's a light that can't be extinguished.