Musician Quotes

Well, I'm gonna preach you a sermon 'bout Old Man Atom I don't mean the Adam in the Bible datum I don't mean the Adam that Mother Eve mated I mean that thing that science liberated Einstein says he's scared And when Einstein's scared, I'm scared.

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?

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.

Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.

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.

The Lennon-McCartney comparison was frequently made and that was an image that critics could relate to. But it wasn't something people in the street could pick up on the way they'll pick up on someone who's really good-looking.

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

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

Mixmaster Morris

And you tell me
Over and over again my friend
That you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.

I was planning on writing a detailed review of several books on web security tonight, but the Obama collapse has superseded my best-laid plans.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.

Every single living human being who encountered the first ray of light of this new century will pass away this century

I think God didn't put eyes on my face because he took his time to put eyes in my soul.

We had no sooner taken our seats in the railway carriage and the train was beginning to move slowly out of the station when the guard came along the corridor and presented me with my viola! The porter had spotted it, reclining in its case all alone on the platform seat where Lillian and I had been busily engaged in conversation, run along the platform, and thrust it into the hands of the guard through the luggage van window as the train was moving off. Such was my absorption in Lillian that I could even forget the existence of my beloved and precious viola which had meant so much to me for so many years.

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

Stephanie Mills

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

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.

Now is the time to give me roses, not to keep them for my grave to come. Give them to me while my heart beats, give them today while my heart yearns for jubilee. Now is the time.

You shouldn't hear the guitar by itself. It should be part of the drums so it sounds like the drummer is playing chords — like the snare is in A or the hi-hat in D minor. You only notice the guitar when it's not there.

Music is a Place to take Refuge. It's a Sanctuary from Mediocrity and Boredom. It's Innocent and it's a Place you can loose yourself in Thoughts, Memories and Intricacies..

To be young, gifted and black.
Oh what a lovely precious dream.
To be young, gifted and black,
Open your heart to what I mean.
In the whole world you know
There are a billion boys and girls
Who are young, gifted and black,
And that's a fact.

The bottom line is that the human species has to realize the human body really is just a cheap suitcase.

Genesis P-Orridge