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Part of me likes words as music sabotage, and part of me wonders why anyone would waste their time liking anything to do with sabotage.
We all do the wrong thing. And then we have to wake up the next morning and live with the fact that we have done things that are wrong.
Words can never really help you say, what you want them to anyway. And words can never really help you see, what you really want to be.
Well, love is a difficult thing to hold on to. It's a slippery little beast. It will hold you and then it will elude you at any moment.
What I do is a little bigger than traditional country. I've been belting all my life, so I fit right in with the musical-theater style.
I tried the Scarsdale diet and the Stillman water diet (you remember that one, where you run weight off trying to get to the bathroom).
My first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years old, and I thought it was big time.
As soon as I could speak, I was singing. Before I could even speak full words, I would make up ones to sing and I have it on tape, too.
I'm an around-the-way girl. I'm a singer, songwriter. I'm about positivity and spreading a good message and telling the people's story.
I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.
Everything I thought I'd hate about having children - the crying, the screaming - nothing fazes me. I love it all, and it's relaxed me.
Erykah Badu projects don't even sound like Erykah Badu projects. I don't even have one album that sounds like another one of my albums.
I was never somebody who grew up going, 'I really want to be a singer in a band,' and I never had any ambition toward anything, really.
I have never bought myself a computer or a phone, but guys in my life have bought them for me, for whatever reason. So now I have them.
The most rewarding thing of my success has been the ability to use my music for many different causes that have become important to me.
I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.
When I was a teenager, I was fat. I was shy. I wore glasses. I had a big eyebrow and hair all over my body. They were years of torture.
To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.
I was going to study at the Sorbonne and become a diplomat. Being a diplomat comes in handy when you are dealing with record companies.
The first time I lose I drink whiskey, second time I lose I drink gin. Third time I lose I drink anything 'cause I think I'm gonna win.
My mom always said I was the peacemaker in the family. My older brother, Eric, was the leader, the creative one. I was just his puppet.
One thing with Backstreet Boys, we never try to rush out an album. We always try to make quality music that can stand the test of time.
I am not my hair I am not this skin I am not your expectations, no I am not my hair I am not this skin I am the soul that lives within.
Many days you will want to give up because of rejections and failures. Passion to be an artist will help you prevail where others fail.
I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want things so much that we sabotage them.
Songs are not better just because they're emotionally honest. To write a song well, you have to put some work into it and grind it out.
Maybe my biggest aim is to bring a sense of that old mystery of rock 'n' roll into the new age of today's instantaneous and fast world.
I lived my twenties on the road, in all different countries experiencing this momentum of a career which was taking off in its own way.
It feels like being in a band is a luxury now: like you can only do it if you're signed really early or you come from a wealthy family.
You can't live the rest of your life carrying a pain because your parents couldn't get along. I choose to spend my life crafting a joy.
I'm always thinking about the next record. I've got like 20 different themes and then I'll scratch the themes. It's a learning process.
Even before I started writing songs, that was one of my goals to be a writer, and I still have that goal. I've just gotten sidetracked.
We all need to demand the happiness for ourselves we desire. Fight for it. Wrestle it out of the clenched fist of the world you live in
I love when I am around a veteran in [show] business. Because I can dig and ask questions, and find out the "who" and "what" of it all.
I have a few caftans just for lounging purposes. When I want to feel free, it's the closest thing to feeling naked without being naked.
And there's that one particular harbor Sheltered from the wind Where the children play on the shore each day And all are safe within...
Sometimes there's that perfect moment when the crowd, the music, the energy of the room come together in a way that brings me to tears.
Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be.
That's where money comes from, you work hard and you earn and then you spend it on correct things, and Public Image is a correct thing.
Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.
I guess this year I'm going to find out if I'm good enough or not. If I'm not, I don't care. I'll do something else, it's not a biggie.
When I came here, I couldn't speak a word of English, but my sex life was perfect. Now my English is perfect but my sex life is rubbish
The great thing about vinyl is that if you wanted to get a decent-sounding cut, you could really only have 20 minutes max on each side.
I really love Hitchcock; I think he was a complete genius, to me one of the best directors. Such a sense of how to put things together.
I am just trying to be a good, protective mother. I want to give Bertie as normal a childhood as possible while preserving his privacy.
If I have children, I am never going to read them stories about finding Prince Charming because they will grow up feeling disappointed.
I think it took me a while to convince Nashville that what I do is genuine and my heart's in the right place, and I love country music.
The Spirit speaks directly to our hearts through music. That's why music has always had such power to move people into positive action.
We were completely DIY and very opinionated. We weren't the type that sat back or do what we're told… We never listened to many people.
It never worked having a management style where someone would try to tell us what to do. It's never been the sort of group that we are.