Musician Quotes

The spirit of the woods is like an old good friend, makes me feel warm and good inside. I knew his name and it was good to see him again, cause in the wind he's still alive.

I wanna be your happiness.
I wanna be your common sense pain.

Men of Harlech! On to glory,
See your banner, famed in story,
Waves these burning words before ye,
"Britain scorns to yield!"

Thomas Oliphant

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

For better or for worse, everything I recall is associated, one way or another, with the piano.

Ruth Slenczynska

Oh, dem golden slippers!
Oh, dem golden slippers!
Golden slippers I'm gwinter to wear,
To walk the golden streets.

I belong to the blank generation I can take it or leave it each time

There is such a thing as poetic science, but no such thing as scientific poetry.

Francis Grierson

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

Genesis P-Orridge

Much of my experience of life has cost me a great price and I wish to use it for strengthening and comforting other souls.

Elizabeth Prentiss

I should know who I am by now.
I walk the record stands somehow.
Thinking of winter.
Your name is the splinter inside me.
While I wait.

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

Jonathan Goldman

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

Stephanie Mills

I was lucky enough to write songs that carry a good beat and tell a real story that people could feel was their story, too — something that old people or the kids could both enjoy.

Antoine Fats Domino, Jr.

On why prison and work songs are liberation songs:

You're walking down life's road, society's foot is on your throat, every which way you turn you can't get from under that foot. And you reach a fork in the road and you can either lie down and die, or insist upon your life.

I hear a thunder in the distance; see a vision of the cross. I feel the pain that was given on a sad day of loss. Only He holds the key: a light to free me from my burden and grant me life eternally.

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

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

If you don't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?

The artist is like a secretary, whether he is a writer, a musician or a painter: He keeps records of his time.

If I simply do my best, I cannot complain even if I am taken to hell.

Shinichi Suzuki (violinist)

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 think it's important for people to be able to think for themselves and not just flock mentality like: "Yes, leader; yes, band; yes, celebrity; yes, entertainer, whatever you say, I'll do."

We are able to speak for ourselves through our music rather than being defined and put into the spotlight in a very male kind of groomed way for an obviously predominantly male audience.

Shingai Shoniwa

The magic happens only when the artist serves with love and the listener receives with the same spirit.