Famous quotes by Musicians

"I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up"

"If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone"

"If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness"

"Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it"

"Oddly, when I started to make the record, I wasn't aware I was making a record. I just was sort of disgusted with the whole thing and sequestered myself in the basement and started playing the piano just for something to do"

"Don't hate the media, become the media"

"The media can be a really strong vehicle"

"German is more familiar now since I live part of the year in Rome and part in the German part of Switzerland. But it's not difficult to sing in German; it's difficult to feel in German. This takes time. It's a culture"

"More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me"

"What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do"

"Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom"

"Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don't let anyone know it"

"Man is a child of his environment"

"Chris proposed exactly the way I've always dreamed. Our families were close by, but it was just us out on a beautiful deck overlooking a lake in East Tennessee. We had just been on a hike and - in our workout clothes - he hit the knee! We feel so blessed by God that He sent us each other, and we are looking so forward to forever together"

"That first writing session, what Dan Hill calls a creative blind date, is always a real challenge, and you bring that back to your partner when you return to writing with them"

"I really was a fan of his and always have been - his writing especially, you know? I think people a lot of times overlook that part, because he kind of got into that party character so heavy"

"George Bush doesn't care about black people"

"We're in the midst of an evolution, not a revolution"

"I think afterall, a promotion video is a piece of work in it's own right"

"I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music"

"My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am"

"Its easier for the generous to forgive, than for offence to ask it"

"Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape"

"We played at a club called, the Elbow Room. Don Carlos, the nightclub owner, was very hip and a very important person who made a big impact on my life"

"My motto is: If you want to be great, you have to be willing to sacrifice everything for it"

"To be truly iconic, you need to be able to be recognized in a silhouette"

"Sometimes you have to be brave and take a leap of faith, even if it's scary"

"But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father"

"Music washes away the dust of every day life"

"I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have"