American Musician Quotes

As you know I have been preaching along with El Duce and Sickie Wifebeater for many years against homosexuality in rock and it's time to take revenge on people that try to stop rock. The real rock, hetero rock. There for Bowie is going on trial within Rock Kourt.

Global warming. Every day I leave my house and think, "was it this hot last year?" The heat this summer here in LA and in most of the US has been unbearable. I can't remember another time when it was 105 degrees Fahrenheit out here (40.5 Celsius), and that's the kind of weather we've been having pretty much every day.

All of nature talks to me - if I could just figure out what it's saying - trees are swinging in the breeze. They're talking to me. Insects are rubbing their legs together. They're all talking. They're talking to me.

Laurie Anderson

As soon as it was understood that we could handle things in our own way, it was the thrill of my life to walk out on that stage with people just hemming the band in.

We're tenting tonight on the old campground, Give us a song to cheer Our weary hearts, a song of home And friends we love so dear.

Walter Kittredge

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.

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.

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

Shoo, fly! don't bodder me! I belong to Company G, I feel like a morning star.

Thomas Brigham Bishop

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

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

Someone once wrote that in between the lives we lead and the lives we fantasize about living is the place in our heads where most of us actually live.

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.

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

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!

Can the circle be unbroken Bye and bye, Lord, bye and bye There's a better home a-waiting In the sky, Lord, in the sky.

I went to sleep with the hope that made America famous. I had the kind of a dream that maybe they're still trying to teach in school. Of the America that made America famous...and Of the people who just might understand That how together yes we can Create a country better than The one we have made of this land, We have a choice to make each man who dares to dream, reaching out his hand A prophet or just a crazy God damn Dreamer of a fool

Sweet home Alabama Where skies are so blue Sweet home Alabama Lord, I'm coming home to you.

Sometimes you want to run away Sometimes you think you do But you never had a dream like this before And you don't want to ask for more Sometimes you leave a mark Before you know the score

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.

The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.

I can't help missing Stokowski. The musician in me thinks of how great Stokowski could make an orchestra sound and wonders if we'll ever ever see another conductor like him.

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

Listening is not the same as hearing and hearing is not the same as listening

Pauline Oliveros

If there is one thing that is constant in this world, it is the power of music.