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The world's a rollercoaster and I am not strapped in. Maybe I should hold with care, but my hands are busy in the air.
If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.
Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley through the middle of my soul.
When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar.
I tend to be not my own best company. I can get a little lost when - if I don't have my work to occasionally focus me.
My dad had a very difficult life, a hard struggle all the time at work. I've always felt like I'm seeking his revenge.
Your mind is a magnet. You don't attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!
I used to second guess myself all the time. I can sit there and work in circles when I'm nervous about what I'm doing.
I don't want to say I can't wait to get back to normal life, because I don't. I don't want to get back to normal life.
I preferred rock when it was in the dark, when it was a secret between me and the audience, when it wasn't mainstream.
Desire is the root of selfishness; clear your heart of desire and be selfless. Selflessness is the key to inner peace.
In the Sixties people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, people take Prozac to make it normal.
Insanity is believing your hallucinations are real. Religion is believing that other peoples' hallucinations are real.
If someone criticizes my child it's gonna hurt me a little bit, but it's my child, you know, and I love it regardless.
No matter how naturally gifted you are, it's your passion that's going to make you better and maybe touch some people.
We work so hard to stay true to country music. People can say they don't like it, but they can't say it's not country.
We've simply been putting Band-Aids on the wounds of racism. We haven't drilled down to the bone to get to its source.
Let's put it this way: I did not get in trouble every time I drank, but every time I got in trouble, I'd been drinking
I think all human beings are at least a little bit Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde, and many of us are downright quadrophenic.
I hope that there will be more and more games that will have something to say and become a little bit more meaningful.
Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.
Well, I guess my unease with that is... I'm always a little uneasy with that phrase - smooth jazz, as opposed to what?
I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.
Luckily, my creative juices are pretty much on tap. If I'm compelled to do something, I can go for it and get it done.
To me, life is a bit of everything. I have the band, I have my kids. Life is a big picture. It's not just your career.
I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.
The sooner you step away from your comfort zone, the sooner you'll realize that it wasn't really all that comfortable.
I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics.
Some people say video games rot your brain, but I think they work different muscles that maybe you don't normally use.
I know I trust people too much, although I try to be a bit firm, but it is a fault that we have learnt from my father.
You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'
I go through phases sometimes: 'I'm a genius; they get me,' and sometimes I'm like, 'Why does anyone want to hear me?'
I was born to love you with every single beat of my heart. I was born to take care of you every single day of my life.
We're now the results of our past actions, and in the future we'll be the results of the actions we're performing now.
In the big picture, it doesn't really matter if we never made a record, or we never sang a song. That isn't important.
I think I've gotten everything I want out of the last years, and I still feel like I have a lot of options open to me.
I knew, regardless of anything else, singing in front of an orchestra was going to be inspirational. It would feed me.
Maybe there's something new that can document an idea quicker, but pen and paper have always been pretty handy for me.
Whether you reach a lot of people or have a profound impact on a few people, their memories of you are your afterlife.
The way that you present yourself visually totally dictates your audience and everything that anyone thinks about you.
I instinctively want to create pop songs and I think it's really good to challenge that, otherwise it becomes a habit.
I could put in garage doors or work in McDonald's but that's it. So I figured I might as well play the Nashville game.
We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost.
I wonder if the guy at the gun store would give me a discount on the bullets I'll need if I told him what I was up to.
Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.
I will play around with an idea for a very long time until it's found it's feet and it's good enough to become a song.
I want a new drug, one that won't make me sick. One that won't make me crash my car, or make my head three feet thick.
Chris Martin is more of a musician and hasn't really put himself out there as a television host or anything like that.
None of us has a girlfriend. But being in a band, you meet people everywhere you go. I know mine will turn up one day.
If you're in a conversation with me, the last thing I'll probably say when I'm walking away is, 'Thank you and sorry.'