20th-century Musician Quotes

Time clocks rob the world of wild possibility. That's what they're for.

Stephanie Mills

I'm celebrating my love for you with a pint of beer and a new tattoo

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.

So let me get right to the point.
I don't pop my cork for every guy I see.
Hey! big spender, spend a little time with me.

Very superstitious, writing's on the wall.
Very superstitious, ladder's 'bout to fall.

Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Had a very shiny nose,
And if you ever saw it,
You would even say it glows.

Sweet sixteen today. She's looking like her momma a little more every day.

But if they know they didn't want Federation
And they know they don't want to unite as one
Independence was at the door, why didn't they speak before
This is no time to say you ain't Federating no more.

Lula is not, and never was, fit to be a president.

I want the ability to do whatever I want without a whole fleet of lawyers and record companies analyzing it and telling me what to do. It's like the success of doing it that way doesn't mean enough to me as an artist or a person for me to fight about it. I'm not going to fight anymore I'm just going to do it the way I want to do it. Why am I going to do it that way and be so obstinate? Because I don't care enough about it to spend that much time on it.

Hot town,
Summer in the city,
Back o' my neck gettin' dirty and gritty.

I try to really understand every aspect of the most high; for me, the most high is Allah... I live my life by Islam.

My mother told me I was blessed, and I have always taken her word for it. Being born of—or reincarnated from—royalty is nothing like being blessed. Royalty is inherited from another human being, blessedness comes from God.

My whole thing is I'm not into civilization as a whole. The only actual solution is the eventual collapse and demise of civilization... I think it needs to happen, but no one, not even me, really wants it to happen.

That's the story that went around,
But here's the real low-down:
Put the blame on Mame, boys,
Put the blame on Mame.

I enjoy a freedom of tone and experimentation unparalleled, almost unthinkable in more traditional films — producers are becoming more conservative, dramatically.

François-Eudes Chanfrault

Joy, happiness, good, bad, all those terms are meaningless to me. If you think of yourself as a separate soul, you're fucked.

Harry Dean Stanton

Plucked her eyebrows on the way, shaved her legs and then he was a she. She said, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side.

It had to go all the way out to the west coast and come all the way back to the east coast every time it needed to be fixed.

Don't know why
There's no sun up in the sky,
Stormy weather
Since my man and I ain't together
It keeps raining all the time.

If, as some savants of consciousness suggest, we are actually agreeing to create, from moment to moment, everything we perceive as real, then it stands to reason that we're also responsible for keeping it going in some harmonious manner.

And what exactly is a dream, and what exactly is a joke?

Well As for now I'm gonna hear the saddest songs
And sit alone and wonder
How you're making out
But as for me, I wish that I was anywhere with anyone
Making out.

Strumming my pain
With her fingers
She was singing
My life with her words

I used to gauge men on how they were around my dogs. Wyatt now becomes the deciding factor. This little boy is so special. It will be very informative about anyone I might get involved with. What are they really made of? How much love do they have?