quotes by Musician Quotes

“Who needs action when you got words?”

“When I go into the studio - it [words] has to sound the way I heard it in my head. So that's probably one of the biggest things that separates me when I'm working in the studio - just how I hear certain things.”

“Kris [Jenner] and the family, they have the power of communication. This is the number one communications company.”

“I'm all for stage diving, but just don't step on my pedals”

“Why would anyone pick blue over pink? Pink is obviously a better colour.”

“And, because my role in society - or any artist or poet's role - is to try to express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel, not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all. And it's like that's the job of the artist in society, not to...they're not some alienated being living on the outskirts of town. It's fine to live on the outskirts of town, but artists must reflect what we all are. … If that's taken it too much on meself, I feel that artists are that - they're reflections of society... Mirrors.”

“I said Yo Jay, I can rap. And I spit this rap that said I'm killin' ya'll *****s on this lyrical sh*t, mayonnaise colored benz, I push miracle whips.”

“People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions.”

“To the man who is truly ethical all life is sacred, including that which from the human point of view seems lower in the scale. He makes distinctions only as each case comes before him, and under the pressure of necessity, as, for example, when it falls to him to decide which of two lives he must sacrifice in order to preserve the other. But all through this series of decisions he is conscious of acting on subjective grounds and arbitrarily, and knows that he bears the responsibility for the life which is sacrificed.”

“There are places I'll remember All my life though some have changed Some forever not for better Some have gone and some remain All these places have their moments With lovers and friends I still can recall Some are dead and some are living In my life I've loved them all”

“The future of rock belongs to women.”

“The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.”

“I wouldn't even say that I'm a rapper. I'd say I'm more of a messenger.”

“The prettiest people do the ugliest things.”

“If it was up to me, I'd get more oil tanker drivers drunk. I don't value music much. I like the Beatles, but I hate Paul McCartney. I like Led Zeppelin, but I hate Robert Plant. I like the Who, but I hate Roger Daltrey.”

“In today's world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they're cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.”

“One thing that I like to do is use words that have never actually been used in a rap song before. I also like to take words that have negative connotations and show their real meaning.”

“Come together, right now.”

“The sky is falling, the wind is callingStand for something, or die in the morning”

“Sometimes you have the trends that's not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these trends and don't really have that lifestyle, and then it gives off the wrong thing. And it becomes kinda corny after awhile. It's really about keeping hip-hop original and pushing away the corniness in it.”

“The Beatles had gone beyond comprehension. We were smoking marijuana for breakfast. We were well into marijuana and nobody could communicate with us, because we were just glazed eyes, giggling all the time.”

“We are the creatives with teeth. We know ideas are more important than our personal wellbeing.”

“Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force.”

“I've never been more confused in my life, but at the same time I've never been more satisfied with what we've done.”

“Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.”

“Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind.”

“I've always considered my work one piece and I consider that my work won't be finished until I am dead and buried and I hope that's a long, long time.”

“Everybody looking at you crazy,What you gon' do?Lift up your head and keep moving,Or let the paranoia haunt you?”

“If you want to get peace, you can get it as soon as you like if we all pull together. ... Think peace, live peace, and breathe peace and you'll get it as soon as you like.”

“That's the ultimate thing I want to do in making music - to be able to inspire somebody else.”

“All people are endowed with the faculty of compassion, and for this reason can develop the humanitarian spirit.”

“I'm a blowfish. I'm not a shark, I'm a blowfish.”

“Reverence for life, veneratio vitæ, is the most direct and at the same time the profoundest achievement of my will-to-live.”

“Man has become a superman ... because he not only disposes oinnate, physical forces, but because he is in command ... olatent forces in nature and because he can put them to his service.... But the essential fact we must surely all feel in our hearts ... is that we are becoming inhuman in proportion as we become supermen.”

“You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.”

“I don't talk about these things if I haven't lived them, and I've hurt people in my life. It's something I still have to think about when I sleep at night.”

“I get by with a little help from my friends.”

“That's my private ant. You're liable to break its legs.”

“There's nothing more comfortable than a cosy flower pattern.”

“I was so wrinkled I could screw my hats on.”

“The more I see the less I know for sure.”

“My life is my argument.”

“I've never been a very prolific person, so when creativity flows, it flows. I find myself scribbling on little notepads and pieces of loose paper, which results in a very small portion of my writings to ever show up in true form.”

“People always try to box you in to what they know you best for.”

“I've always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.”

“I don't understand anything technical about music at all. I don't understand any of it, why you can't put these sounds together with those sounds. I only know what sounds good.”

“They just elected me Mis Phonograph Record of 1966. They discovered my measurements were 33 1/2, 45, 78!”

“You may say i'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one”

“It took me three weeks to stuff the turkey. I stuffed it through the beak.”

“The future of civilization depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness which characterize the thoughts and convictions of men today, and reaching a state of fresh hope and fresh determination.”