Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Sometimes I was like Beavis and Butt-head growing up. I know people who lit their friend's house on fire accidentally.
Getting this caliber of musicians together [for "90 Millas" CD in September of 2007] is almost impossible to do again.
My job as an entertainer is to take you some place else. I love exploring different genres of music to please my fans.
I am not strict vegan, because I'm a hedonist pig. If I see a big chocolate cake that is made with eggs, I'll have it.
I'm still the same guy. My name is still Greyson Chance from Oklahoma. I grow much taller. But nothing really changes.
B.O.Y. means ‘Beware of You’… Be aware of your power. We have the choice to live positively or in our own destruction.
If I could find a real life place to make me feel like Tiffany's, then I'd buy some furniture and give the cat a name.
Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.
We are so blessed as artists and entertainers, and we should use our powers to raise awareness of things where we can.
'Encore' was an experiment. 'Encore' was the second chance at a first impression. 'Encore' was not completely planned.
Not to be mean about it, but some great rock and rollers, like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, are pretty one-dimensional.
I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because music is universal.
As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices.
Trouble travels fast / When you're specially designed for crash testing / Or wearing wool sunglasses in the afternoon.
Looking at himself, but wishing he was someone else. Because the posters on the wall, they don't look like him at all.
The chinese yunjae fans are very kind. They sent me and Yunho links to fanfictions. *giggles* They were 'fun' to read.
Those things interest me a lot in songwriting - the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind up in.
My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.
I think it's good that opportunity, like circumstances, can really affect what you do and you have no control over it.
There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.
Life is a series of triumphs and disappointments. Once you harness the disappointments, your triumphs will be greater.
Definitely I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell, and I think she is a wonderful writer, so she is probably part of me.
I studied all kinds of dance, all types of music. I got good grades. I started hitting the recording studio around 13.
The world changes fast, and a lot of the old country folks have a hard time keeping up with it, and it makes them sad.
I've tried to be open to what's going on and paying close attention, not letting things that inspire me to pass me by.
The south is very focused on family... the musical heritage of Muscle Shoals especially and the bands from the region.
Music should be like making love. Sometimes you want it soft and tender, another time you want it hard and aggressive.
There's no wrong you can't make right again, so be kinder to yourself; you know, have fun, take chances. Those bounds.
That's what I enjoy most about my music, that it heals in its own time and makes us look at ourselves in its own time.
The honest thing is that my parents wanted to help people. That is part of my responsibility, to carry on that legacy.
I keep falling off the edge of the stage because I can't see it. I can't see my wrinkles in the mirror either, though.
I had a year-round Christmas tree with nothing but colored vinyl 45s hanging on it, like, old Elvis records and stuff.
I'm thankful for the sea breeze that feels so good right now, and the scent of jasmine when the sun starts going down.
Creative people have to be fed from the divine source. I have to get fed. I had to get filled up in order to pour out.
He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand, and tried to tell himself at last he had become a man.
I have intentions as a writer, but people - when they're listening to a track - will take from it what they interpret.
In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.
I didn't feel like I was allowed to be a songwriter. I thought I had to be a really intelligent lyricist, like a poet.
I don't mind doing publicity but I want to make sure it's the right type and it's about promoting my music and not me.
More than a pleasant surprise, Danny Schmidt was no less than a revelation to me. And that's not a word I use lightly.
My mom loved to sing - and I'll go on record and say she was the worst singer ever. I'd get up and move away from her!
I'm writing constantly about all my crazy experiences across the world, so I have a lot of music I've already written.
Nashville has a great creative atmosphere. It's a small, close-knit music community that you can't find anywhere else.
I grew up listening to Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, so arriving in Nashville in the '60s was really exciting for me.
It's interesting to be playing a father who's on the other side because that's not my world and not where I came from.
Today, people are more into the glitz and the glamour of everything. We don't even read the inside of records anymore.
I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.
May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude.
I’ve seen the nations rise and fall. I’ve heard their stories, heard them all, but love’s the only engine of survival.
My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement.