Son Quotes - Page 105

He was my confidant, the person who was always on my side even when he wasn't taking my side.

If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.

The Arts are learnt by reason and method; they are mastered by practice.

Women have innate talents and exceptional abilities that go unnoticed by our society, and that women themselves often do not fully appreciate. If every woman were to listen closely enough to her own secret song- not simply with ears, but with eyes (all three!), loins, breasts, heart, spirit, and soul- she would discover a power that she has carried with her since before the beginning of time.

If everyone started off the day singing, just think how happy they'd be.

Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason [...] When we waste time, we waste happiness.

What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.

It's what I like to call the horizontal Jesus. Vertical Jesus are the songs that say 'Lord I love you, Lord I praise you, Lord I thank you' and horizontal is 'I'm in a situation. This is the problem. How can I apply that now horizontally?' There are more problems in the world because he's not being applied horizontally.

In the depth of my soul there is a wordless song.

A creative person has to #‎ create .

This dark diction has become America's addiction.

Words are what make the song. I get a personal vision about what the lyrics are about.

Law has no skin, reason has no nostrils.

Sometimes a little heartbreak is a lesson, and the best thing to do is just learn the lesson.

Happiness is seeing your son drafted the same day he's been accepted to an expensive college.

Some of the songs come so fully, it's like they are pre-packaged. There have been a couple that came in the middle of the night. And I thought, jeez, I'll never forget that. And went back to sleep, and it was gone. You'll hear something years later that another songwriter that you respect writes, and you go, jeez, I think that was the remnants of that song that got sent to me.

You try to play the song better than you had before.

Obedience is a penance of reason, and, on that account, a sacrifice more acceptable than all corporal penances and mortifications.

A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens.

There are sons of God who do not yet appear so to us, but now do so to God; and there are those who, on account of some arrogated or temporal grace, are called so by us, but are not so to God.

Authority that is not confirmed by true reason seems weak. Whereas true reason does not need to be confirmed by any authority.

I have to love the DNA of the brand fundamentally. I need to be able to fuse my personality with theirs. That's what I've done with Adidas, Swatch, and in a different way with Moschino. I really have to feel fused with it.

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be And so I put this on my life Nobody or nothing will ever come between us And I promise I'll give my life

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

Choose life … I chose not to choose life. I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you’ve got heroin?