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I wanted to create a voyage to the moon just for her, but what I should have given her was a real journey on earth.
Knuckle deep inside the borderline. This may hurt a little but it's something you'll get used to. Relax. Slip away.
But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it.
I'll always cling to these little girl dresses at vintage shops, and I can never wear them because they're so tiny!
With 'Pity Party,' it's the first time seeing my vision come to life in front of my face. I'm super happy about it.
Guitar playing is very important to me. It's like golf to some other people; it's important to me that I play good.
The two things that matter are the desire, and being healthy enough to do it. Everything else to me is a non-issue.
When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.
For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.
I don't see a Spanish song being No. 1 on the Hot 100. I mean, if it happens, fantastic. But I don't think it will.
I don’t want normal and easy and simple. I want painful, difficult, devastating, life-changing, extraordinary love.
The faces and the tactics of the leaders may change every four years, or two, or one, but the people go on forever.
The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn't use their imaginations to think of the impossible.
My father, Charles Seeger, got me into the Communist movement. He backed out around '38. I drifted out in the 50's.
I don't like the human race in general. We are the only species who hunt for sport, who kill due to emotional need.
I make grown-folks music, and I'm cool with that. I accept that. I try to be witty while also delivering a message.
When you're young and fall off a horse, you may break something. When you're my age and you fall off, you splatter.
I think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills - unless it's heavy metal. People do not like death.
It was always important to me to be that kid who could rock the party as well as rock the English professor's mind.
The biggest thing I take away from the Army is that work ethic and being able to focus and put your eyes on a goal.
Make your own talent, make your own luck, and activate your stubborn streak, and there's nothing that can stop you.
I don't know why people think I'm polished - I often leave the house with buttons missing and ladders in my tights.
In terms of clothes, everything is on the same level for me. If I like it, it doesn't matter if it cost £200 or £2.
After two and a half engagements, of course I want to get married and have babies, so I am going to freeze my eggs.
It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this.
I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.
Diazapam (that's valium), temazepam, lithium, ECT, HRT - how long must I stay on this stuff? Don't give me anymore!
I don't have to have my tits out to try to sell some kind of record. I can just be me and give songs that I'm into.
I think the best thing, or the greatest thing my girls have going for them, is having their mother as a role model.
I never said Well, I don't have this and I don't have that. I said, I don't have this yet, but I'm going to get it.
My legacy is that I stayed on course...from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.
They're still in good shape, but I'm not flashing them anymore. I'm an old lady. I leave all the flesh to the kids.
The biggest blunder in the history of this country was when President Truman pulled General MacArthur out of China.
My parents had to work hard, and I was always looking for a way to make it big - for their sakes as well as my own.
My intention was never to write a "trans novel" - which is perhaps an effective strategy for writing a trans novel.
I came here with something in me that I inherited from my folks. So I'm going to do something called life and times.
The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.
If I get married, I think I'd pick out a newspaperman rather than a millionaire. A newspaperman is a regular fellow.
When I was young my heart was young then, too. And anything that it would tell me, that's the thing that I would do.
Trying to grow up is hurting. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts even more.
Now, kids are bulls**t meters. We can smell bulls**t right away. When something's not real, you can't connect to it.
I still perform it in all my shows. I'll do it as long as I'm breathing. I'm so proud it has stood the test of time.
I have to teach myself. I kind of wish I'd continued with my education, but that's something I can do in the future.
Not everybody in the country-music community is like me - I just happen to be one of the guys that is stereotypical.
I felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I've always felt blessed.
You're always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that's maybe even too weird for your own taste.
Gaslight Anthem's thing is its power. It's just like boom and explosions and loud, and play with everything you got.
I just like a good song, it doesn't matter. I mean, I am into girl groups and stuff like that. I listen to anything.
What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't.
I used to be fast and loose with the term 'country' because I didn't know what else to call my music. I still don't.