Menu

 Authors
A B C D E F
G H I J K L
M N O P Q R
S T U V W S
Y Z
Get Socialize
My Account
Make Free Wallpaper

7898 Musician Quotes

I dance because I have to, because I'm so passionate about it.
About Because Dance Passionate
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.

Am Consequences Only Politician
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I've got to pick myself up Dust myself off And start all over again.

Again Dust Got Myself
  Favorite Make wallpaper

And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.

Am Ask Black Born
  Favorite Make wallpaper

To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.

Death Found Guilty Possession
  Favorite Make wallpaper

In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.

Aspect Beginning Best Better
  Favorite Make wallpaper
I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen?
Garden Inspiration Large Music
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I mean the flesh, never fade! The flesh never leave the creation, see, because with that divine spirit the flesh cannot fade. If the spirit is weak then the flesh fade, seen?

Because Cannot Creation Divine
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I don't think the label cares about an album... People just want their number-one record.

About Album Cares Just
  Favorite Make wallpaper

My father was a bad boy, a rascal. That's what him do for a living. He just go around and have a million and one children!

Around Bad Boy Children
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Me is what them call illegitimate, that mean say me is a criminal, bomba rassclaat! That's why me go write a song called 'Illegitimate Children.' It took me years to find out I was one.

Call Children Criminal Find
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I have no mother here; I have a bearer. Jah is my mother, and Jah is my father.

Father Here Jah Mother
  Favorite Make wallpaper

My earthly parents don't know my potential or my divine qualities. They weren't taught how to diagnose or be aware of such things.

Aware Divine Earthly How
  Favorite Make wallpaper

My mother and father didn't know anything about instruments. Me just see a man in the country play guitar one time and say, 'My, the man play that guitar nice.'

About Anything Country Father
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I was born with music inside of me, and that was the first flower that bloomed on my tree, but I was the highest key in my school and also the lowest key, seen?

Also Born First Flower
  Favorite Make wallpaper
There is great honor in being humble.
Great honor Being humble
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Stories can change. Stories change. Let nothing rob you of hope, stories change!

Stories Can change Rob you Hope
  Favorite Make wallpaper

It is when you find YOU that you can make a difference and be truly celebrated.

Find you Make Difference Truly celebrated
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Our spiritual life should be integrated into and reflect in our “secular” lives.

Spiritual life Integrated Reflect Secular lives
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I was the only one in my family to be musically inclined, and my mother loved that. It encouraged my grand aunt to find me a music teacher, because it was quite obvious music was in me.

Aunt Because Encouraged Family
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I go to church because my parents go to church, and I believe the things they were doing at the time were right because they were the ones growing up in righteousness, and their life was supposed to be an example, seen?

Because Believe Church Doing
  Favorite Make wallpaper

…When God tells a man to move, he shouldn’t say, God, please wait I’m coming.

When God Move Wait Coming
  Favorite Make wallpaper
The only bond that should not break in life is marriage and your relationship with God.
Bond Break Life Marriage
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I was taught that Jesus the Son of God was a white man, and hearing black people singing, 'Lord, wash me, and I will be whiter than snow,' made me sick.

Black God Hearing Jesus
  Favorite Make wallpaper

God placed a few on your path for a reason, for a season and sometimes for a lifetime…

God Reason Season Lifetime
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Everybody is incidental. There is a reason why you are there.

Everybody Incidental Reason
  Favorite Make wallpaper

…God sees our personalities before giving us our purpose.

God Personality Giving us Purpose
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Stardom is me, me, but you have to turn the ‘Me’ upside down and make it “we”. It is not about me alone, it is not about you alone, it has to be us.

Stardom Me Upside down Make it
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Every experience we get is an investment into our lives.

Every experience Investment Lives
  Favorite Make wallpaper

My job is to be the constructive awakener of the black masses of the world so them know themself and others know what black people suppose to be and where.

Black Constructive Job Know
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I enjoy watching the karate practitioners because of their high spiritual level.

Because Enjoy High Karate
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Is word, sound, and powa dat break down de barriers of oppression an drive away transgression an rule equality.

Away Barriers Break Down
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I love to watch television in Babylon, especially the news because it's so full of corruption. I-man know there is so much corruption, there is bound to be an eruption!

Babylon Because Bound Corruption
  Favorite Make wallpaper

People go to school and get educated, but most people who go to school and become a graduate in eduation still don't know what the word 'education' means... 'Educo' means to bring out.

Become Bring Educated Education
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Every year, I hear about Thanksgiving. Who do one give thanks to? ... And who is giving thanks? What are they giving thanks for? For lots of poverty that's on the earth and lots of war that is a-rumoring all over the earth?

About Crime Daily Die
  Favorite Make wallpaper
It's not the one-half that's never been told; it's the three-quarters.
Been Never Three-Quarters
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Was not a breakup, you know - is just going three different ways and sending the music in three different directions. Was just that my inspiration was growing, and my cup filled and runneth over... One man grow mango, another grow pear.

Another Breakup Cup Different
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I think one of the things about writing in the studio is that the song hasn't matured, if you like, so quite often the vocals are early attempts. Whereas once you've taken it out on the road a bit, you learn more about a song.

About Attempts Bit Early
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I think that you get the mood of a song stronger if you get it right that way. On the other hand, you put some songs out live and they don't catch flight. They just flop. It is hard to tell until they are out there.

Catch Flight Flop Get
  Favorite Make wallpaper

One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.

Appeals Artist Being Enables
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music.

Accept Another Artist Every
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I'm a bit cynical that it ever will be addressed properly. I think it is healthy to get some sort of copyright protection. But some of it has gone on forever.

Bit Copyright Cynical Ever
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I didn't leave the band to go solo so much as to stop feeling like a production item.

Band Feeling Go Item
  Favorite Make wallpaper

You have independent films and independent music, but you don't have independent theme parks - I think, in a way, Burning Man is as close, probably, as you get.

Burning Close Films Get
  Favorite Make wallpaper

What intrigues me is that you get a good bunch of musicians together, and interesting things will happen.

Bunch Get Good Happen
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Art suggests stuff that is traded like money, that is kept in galleries and that belongs to the elite, whereas experience is something that everybody has in the course of living.

Art Belongs Course Elite
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Italian food is my favorite food. It's the most sophisticated eating system.

Eating Favorite Food Italian
  Favorite Make wallpaper
A record for us that sells 50,000 is a good record, and 100,000 is a serious hit.
Good GoodRecord Hit Record
  Favorite Make wallpaper

If we grab technology and adapt it and make it work for us, it will work in one way, whereas if we just leave it, it will stay in the hands of big corporations and governments, who have other agendas.

Adapt Agendas Big BigCorporations
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I think the rhythm is like the spine of the piece. If you change that, then the body that forms around it is changed as well.

Around Body Change Changed
  Favorite Make wallpaper