American Musician Quotes

Bruce Willis

Miles Davis

Kurt Cobain

Stevie Wonder

Chuck Berry

Ray Charles

Lou Reed

As a political independent, I would gladly vote for any political party dedicated to limited government and entrepreneurship.

Arthur C. Brooks

The word "hillbilly", I've never liked that, and I've never used that in my music.

I have really bad days and I have really OK days. It's strange. I'm blessed. I'm alive. I'm here.

In fact, drinking milk and eating dairy products can rob your body of calcium and contribute to osteoporosis. If you eat dark green leafy vegetables like kale, collards, and mustard greens, you can get enough calcium from a vegan diet.

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 is a road, no simple highway, between the dawn and the dark of night, and if you go, no one may follow, that path is for your steps alone

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.

What are words worth?
Words in papers
Words in books
Words on TV
Words are crooks
Words of comfort
Words of peace
Words to make the fighting cease
Words to tell you what to do
Words are working hard for you.

You just have to determine to settle for nothing less than being FULLY ALIVE, to show up, be who you are, and share your gifts.

I'm staggered by the question of what it's like to be a multimillionaire. I always have to remind myself that I am.

What does it mean that social structures among young people are so often predicated upon trying really, really hard to appear to not-be-trying?

I know I'm dreadfully ugly, one of the ugliest men you could meet, but ugliness, like beauty, is something you must learn how to use.

Sammy Davis Jr.

Last two soldiers on the battlefield
survivors of the war
they aim at one another while their mothers beg the lord
"if you're listening, I'm missing him
so somehow bring him home"
how did it come to this?
so the soldiers lift their rifles and they're aiming at the head
they think of their first love before they take a final breath
and somewhere in the distance they hear something someone said
how did it come to this?

We do not find happiness by being assertive. We don't find happiness by running over people because we see what we want and they are in the way of that happiness so we either abandon them or we smash them. The Scriptures don't teach us to be assertive. The Scriptures teach us—and this is remarkable—the Scriptures teach us to be submissive. This is not a popular idea.

Now I'm 'Blake Lewis' to the world, but I will always still be Bshorty from Bothell... I've never looked at it like a competition so I think I've won regardless. I won when I got to the top ten; I've already reached my goal.

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

The key is so distant, I've opened doors.
Know when to listen, know what to listen for.

Oh the moonlight's fair tonight along the Wabash.
From the fields there comes the breath of new-mown hay;
Thro' the sycamores the candle lights are gleaming,
On the banks of the Wabash far away.

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.

The creation of music is just as natural as the air we breathe. I believe music is really a free thing, and any way you Can enjoy it, you should.

Ornette Coleman

I wanna know all of your names. So at the count of three I want you all to scream your names! 1-2-3! (fans yell names) Good, now we know each other intimately. You know what that means? (fan yells Orgy!) Orgy? (laughs) No!

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

There is such a thing as poetic science, but no such thing as scientific poetry.

Francis Grierson

When you live your life through records, the records are a record of your life.

In response to some favorable criticism by the French jazz critic Hugues Panassie:

I don't see why we need a Frenchman to come over here and tell us how to play American music. I wouldn't think of going to France and telling him how to jump on a grape.