Musician Quotes

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

In the 1960s, the record companies seemed to sign anything with long hair; if it was a sheepdog, so what.

We're all going on a summer holiday,
No more worries for a week or two.

Sometimes my feelings get so big that I just want to swim out into the darkness. Just jump off the end of the world. Sometimes I want to dig, right down to the bones of everything. Sometimes when you dig, you dig up stuff you might not want to find. But that's where the good stuff lies.

Cecil Castellucci

When you're alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go downtown.

We used to play in places so tough that you had to show your gun and puke twice before they'd let you in the door.

It takes a little time sometimes
To get your feet back on the ground...

Alcohol, acid, cocaine... they were just affairs. When I met heroin it was true love.

[The country singer] sings more sincere than most entertainers, because the hillbilly was raised tougher than most entertainers. The people who has been raised something like the way the hillbilly has, knows what he is singing about and appreciates it. For what he is singing, is the hopes, and prayers, and dreams and experiences of what some call the "common people." I call them the "best people," because they are the ones that the world is made up most of. They're really the ones who make things tick, wherever they are in this country, or in other country.

My daughter's death will not be in vain! The young people of this country will not allow that to happen!

To exceed the expectations of others, we must first raise expectations of ourselves.

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.

I was planning on writing a detailed review of several books on web security tonight, but the Obama collapse has superseded my best-laid plans. Here's another open thread for this important topic, as America wrestles with the issue of whether it would be a good idea to elect a President with a 20-year history of associating with people who hate America.

Charles Foster Johnson

We will trust you as our leader,
We will trust you as our leader,
No one else could lead like you,
For you know what is best to do.

Militant homosexuals, pro-abortionists, occultists, New Agers, pornographers, radical feminists, atheists, paganists and a whole collection of angry anti-Christian groups are all coming out of their closets and onto the battlefield. Their common denominator is a hatred for Christianity and for any expression of traditional values.

Carman (singer)

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?

I was been raised to believe I was an artist. I believed what my parents said and fulfilled it, like a prophecy.

Whatever you like at age 16, you will find boring at age 32.

Mixmaster Morris

Oh, man, I didn't have my glasses on and I can't see anything.

Yngwie J. Malmsteen

I didn't expect to get the opportunity to create music for a living. I just couldn't stop making music, it was too much fun.

Temporal was the first recording that captured my true guitar sound (dinosaurs slipping and blocks of wire whittled with a feather). The mood of the world was different and yet music (sculpted time) always is there waiting to be manifested.

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

It is not quite accurate to say that the objective of art is to represent what happens to us as a consequence of encountering the world. A fuller description of the task would be to say our aim is to discover what happens to us as we consider things.

Everything they'd been brought up not to do, they could do at a rock-and-roll show.

I live in a box of paints
I'm frightened by the devil
And I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid