20th-century Musician Quotes

The bottom line is that the human species has to realize the human body really is just a cheap suitcase.

Genesis P-Orridge

We are able to speak for ourselves through our music rather than being defined and put into the spotlight in a very male kind of groomed way for an obviously predominantly male audience.

Shingai Shoniwa

Thus it came to pass that jazz multiplied all over the face of the earth and the wiggling of bottoms was tremendous.

Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took one look at ourselves in our raggedly long winter coats and cracked up. We knew we weren't likely to tempt anyone or anything, but what the hell, it was as good a name as any.

Fly me to the moon, and let me play among the stars; Let me see what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars. In other words, hold my hand! In other words, darling, kiss me!

The only person who is hurt by jealousy is you... Eliminate that word from your life... it may not make you unsuccessful selling your art, but it will destroy your happiness.

We skipped the light fandango
And turned cartwheels cross the floor …
And so it was that later
As the miller told his tale
That her face just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale …
One of sixteen vestal virgins
Who were leaving for the coast …

Hardly a day goes by without me sticking on a Muddy Waters record.

We used to play in places so tough that you had to show your gun and puke twice before they'd let you in the door.

Temporal was the first recording that captured my true guitar sound (dinosaurs slipping and blocks of wire whittled with a feather). The mood of the world was different and yet music (sculpted time) always is there waiting to be manifested.

We carry in our hearts the true country and that cannot be stolen. We follow in the spirit of our ancestors and that cannot be broken.

I was been raised to believe I was an artist. I believed what my parents said and fulfilled it, like a prophecy.

I was born and raised a Christian and I still adhere to those principles.

What I've found is that country doesn't refer to where you grew up as much as where your heart grows down, where it takes root. Country is a state of mind. I believe what ultimately defines being country is simple: a loving heart, a helping hand, an open mind, poor in spirit.

The artist is like a secretary, whether he is a writer, a musician or a painter: He keeps records of his time.

The spiritual experience isn't one of filling ourselves up— with either religious or intellectual beliefs—but of emptying ourselves so that we can experience what is, directly, unfiltered.

I love coffee in a cup, little fuzzy pups, bourbon in a glass, and grass.

Anyone who says the Backstreet Boys can't sing is crazy. They're probably just reading some highbrow critic who hates anyone the general public embraces. I'm sorry, but those boys sing their butts off. They work hard on their choreography, and on their harmonies. Their tracks are tight and solid. Their songs are musical and memorable.

You women have heard of jalopies,
You've heard the noise they make,
But let me introduce my new Rocket '88.
Yes it's great, just won't wait,
Everybody likes my Rocket '88.

Let's put it this way: I did not get in trouble every time I drank, but every time I got in trouble, I'd been drinking

To be young, gifted and black.
Oh what a lovely precious dream.
To be young, gifted and black,
Open your heart to what I mean.
In the whole world you know
There are a billion boys and girls
Who are young, gifted and black,
And that's a fact.

Sunday doesn't just prepare us for the week ahead - it prepares us for eternity.

The first education should be the harmonious development of the child's physical, mental and spiritual powers. Providing warm and understanding responses to your children's 'hearts' accomplishes far more than pressuring book knowledge into their minds.

You're a shining star
No matter who you are
Shining bright to see
What you can truly be.

We are the scatterlings of Africa On a journey to the stars.