American Singer Quotes

Unless you're a true prodigy, you're going to have to practice for a while being bad before you get any good. And it will seem like a waste of time. I remember that feeling well. But don't worry about wasting time, because it'll be so worth it. It's my experience that in the end, life lessons and guitar lessons begin to blur in all sorts of interesting ways.

The only proper way to eliminate bad habits is to replace them with good ones.

We sing with the entire body. The sounds that we make emanate not just from the head, but from the whole heart and soul, and, most important, the gut.

You can live and learn, but you cannot learn to live. So just live.

What if trials of this life, the rain, the storms, the hardest nights, are Your mercies in disguise?

The longer you live, the more dreams you should have to keep you occupied.

Both sin and sickness came into the world through the fall of the human race. Therefore, we must look for the healing of both in the savior of the human race. God is as willing to heal believers as He is to forgive unbelievers. Know this; if He was merciful enough to forgive you when you were unconverted, He is merciful enough to heal you now that you are in His family!

So often we don't give from our abundance. We give from what we have no use for. I have learned that God not only looks at what we give but also at what we keep.

Let me get a big 'hell yeah' from the redneck girls like me, hell yeah.

Gretchen Wilson

If you don't aim for the best prospects, you're likely to do business with any prospect.

That's the power you possess as an artist. To find and express your own unique message.

Music is so essential to the Cuban character that you can't disentangle it from the history of the nation. the history of Cuban music is one of cultural collisions, of voluntary and forced migrations, of religions and revolutions.

Honey, I don't care, I ain't in love with your hair, and if it all fell out I'd love you anyway.

Fact: More people are killed each year by teddy bears than by grizzly bears.

Freedom isn't the absence of boundaries; it's the ability to operate successfully and happily within boundaries.

Rohan, if being a hero is having the courage to resist using power arbitrarily, then you are a hero, beloved.

In most marriages, there is a contented partner and a restless one.

Jennifer Wilson

When I was a boy, while watching the funeral procession of the Great Martin Luther King Jr. on NBC, I observed a rickety wooden cart being pulled by two mules and behind the cart, a sea of people. In the cart lay the body of MLK; at that moment, he represented the totality of the human struggle. I remember feeling then, while watching the procession on TV, that we, as a country, were either going to pull together or else come apart.

They say I do do it, ain't nobody caught me,
Sure got to prove it on me.
Went out last night with a crowd of my friends,
They must've been women, 'cause I don't like no men.

Wild women don't worry.
Wild women don't have the blues.

I got a sweet black angel, I like the way he spread his wings.

Throw it away
Throw it away
Give your love, live your life
Each and every day.
And keep your hand wide open
And let the sun shine through
'Cause you can never lose a thing
If it belongs to you.

The creator has a master plan,
Peace and happiness for every man.

We will not bow down to racism
We will not bow down to injustice
We will not bow down to exploitation
Tmgon' stand.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

Take me to the river
And wash me down
Won't you cleanse my soul
Put my feet on the ground.