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

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)

Goodnight, Irene, goodnight, Irene,
I'll kiss you in my dreams.

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

I am honestly not sure how capable I am of love. And I'm not sure why.

Gil Scott-Heron

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

Ruth Slenczynska

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.

Waiting prayer, or waiting on the Lord, is the silent surrendering of the soul to God. It is wordless worship. It is seeking God not from without but from within. It is to seek God in your heart.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

She was hailed as the morning star, as the sun rejoicing in his brightness, and like that generous luminary, which bids the diamond blaze, and deigns to gild the lily, she dispensed her gracious attentions to all who aspired to their influence...

William Sterndale Bennett

Don't know why
There's no sun up in the sky,
Stormy weather
Since my man and I ain't together
It keeps raining all the time.

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.