Musician Quotes

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

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

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

Francis Grierson

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

Shinichi Suzuki (violinist)

Simply because you can breathe, doesn't mean you're alive, or that you really live.

You're a shining star
No matter who you are
Shining bright to see
What you can truly be.

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.

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.

Sweet sixteen today. She's looking like her momma a little more every day.

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

Whenever I don't know what to write about, I just close my eyes and think of Essex.

I don't know him from a can of paint. I'm 15 years deep. That's how you attack a king? You attack moi? Come on, man. You got to come correct. You the laughing stock. People are like, 'You can't be serious.

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?

We are the scatterlings of Africa On a journey to the stars.

We are stronger than we think we are.
We have courage that we do not recognize until we need it.
We are equal to challenges that we haven't even imagined yet

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

Every bit of you has been replaced many times over... The point is that you are like a cloud: something that persists over long periods, whilst simultaneously being in flux. Matter flows from place to place and momentarily comes together to be you. Whatever you are, therefore, you are not the stuff of which you are made.

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.

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