Singer Quotes

Love is something sent from Heaven to worry the Hell out of you.

So if you are the big tree, we are the small axe. Ready to cut you down, to cut you down.

As a man I am not a killer. I’m an artist and a modern person. I’ll choose sanity.

I've never been the big recording star I'd love to be some day. I've had lots of hits off and on through the years but I've never had the success of other artists - one hit after another back-to-back-to-back and big hits, where every song is going to be number one. I'm not greedy or nothing. I just want everything. Is there something wrong with that?

My philosophy is simple: It's a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things.

As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I'd written? Yes. There's many of them!

Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.

I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.

The album that defined my childhood was probably Ella Fitzgerald's 'Greatest Hits,' whereas my half-sister, who didn't have the same conservative upbringing, was listening to Cash Money and crunk.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

There are some pop songs I hate but I can't get them out of my head. Our songs also have the standard pop format: Verse, chorus, verse, chorus, solo, bad solo. All in all, I think we sound like The Knack and the Bay City Rollers being molested by Black Flag and Black Sabbath.

It seems that all revolutions end up with a personality cult - even the Chinese seem to need a father-figure.

I think that I'm perfect.

As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you're doing good in my book.

A Conspiracy of silence speaks louder than words.

I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it's poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple.

I go back to December, turn around and make it alright I go back to December, turn around and change my own mind I go back to December all the time

I bought all those [fitness] videos -- Richard Simmons, Jane Fonda. I love to sit and eat cookies and watch 'em.

Punk rock should mean freedom, liking and excepting anything that you like. Playing whatever you want. As sloppy as you want. As long as it's good and it has passion.

Every one of my regrets has produced a song I'm proud of.

TV is the rat race of the century.

Take a deep breath, pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again.

I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.

When I'm getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.

I think that the idea of finding another person to share your life with is the most fascinating, beautiful quest you could ever be on in life. And yes, living your dreams is so important too, and a lot of times I’ve put that before everything else. But then you get to a place where the whole time you’re living these dreams, you look beside you to say to someone, “Hey, isn’t this so much fun?” And if there’s no one there to say it to, what’s the point?

I shot the sheriff, but I didn't shoot no deputy.

If I had the capabilities of being something other than I am, I would. It's no fun being an artist. You know what it's like, writing, it's torture.

I’m the type of person that tries to fall back asleep in the morning just to finish a dream.

Don't underestimate the importance of happiness. As long as you're happy, who cares what you do?

I make bad decisions frequently. They're fun.

This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.

it is better to be happy alone than to be miserable with someone else

Don't ever play with someone's feelings, you could win the game but you could lose that person forever.

I'll be like Bob Hope, touring when I'm 100.

You can manicure a cat but can you caticure a man?

Sometimes you see these people who are just so—God—so affected by all of it, where ambition has taken precedence over happiness. But when I meet people who really embody this serenity of knowing that they have had an amazing life—James Taylor, Kris Kristofferson, and Ethel Kennedy... They just seem to be effervescent.

...what threatens us today in the world of computers and other invasions of privacy is not a national ID card but a number of other things.

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

Listen to the sound of silence.

It's not easy being young. It's hard to know what to do.

Sometimes I'm fascinated with how famous my work could be while I'm not so famous.

I would have told her then she was the only thing that I could love in this dying world but the simple word "love" itself already died and went away.

The things that seem insignificant to most people such as a note, song or walk become invaluable treasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

[Mrs. Teasdale]: He's had a change of heart. [Groucho]: A lot of good that'll do him. He's still got the same face.

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I'm going to be alive, I want to be challenged - to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn't an easy way, but it's a rewarding way.

Jewish men don't know anything.

Elvis died the day he went into the army.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.

Why should The Beatles give more? Didn't they give everything on God's earth for ten years? Didn't they give themselves?

I drink a lot of water.

As you experience love and relationships, you start to realize that love tends to end in a very painful goodbye.

I try to read as much as I can. I try to read an informative article every day. I try to stay read up on our world issues.

Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned... Everything is war. Me say war. That until the're no longer 1st class and 2nd class citizens of any nation... Until the color of a man's skin is of no more significa...nce than the color of his eyes, me say war. That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race me say war!

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don't feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn.

I only remember a few things about Jimmy Carter. He had big lips and liked peanuts. I now know that Jimmy Carter was and is a good man.

I have to work really hard to get the record deal - I have to spend years at it to get good. I have to practice to be good at guitar.