American Musician Quotes

Little kids shoot marbles where the branches break the sun into graceful shafts of light… I just want to be pure.

You come into this world a zero, and you leave a zero.

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

Stephanie Mills

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

There is a basic truth which man can know and which can transform his life if he will become the embodiment of it.

It's one for the money,
Two for the show,
Three to get ready,
Now go, cat, go!
But don't you step on my Blue Suede Shoes.
You can do anything but lay off my Blue Suede Shoes.

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.

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.

The word enchant comes from the Latin 'incantare', meaning to sing or chant magical words or sounds.

Jonathan Goldman

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.

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.

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

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!

If I should take a notion
To jump into the ocean
'Tain't nobody's biz-ness if I do.

Porter Grainger

If I had possession over judgment day
Lord the woman I'm loving
Wouldn't have no right to pray.

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Great is thy faithfulness! Great is thy faithfulness!
Morning by morning new mercies I see;
All I have needed thy hand has provided.
Great is thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me.

Thomas O. Chisholm