Son Quotes - Page 109

I remember the people I knew in prison; I was very fortunate to know them - they came from 1910, 1920, 1930.

My songs grow on people - like warts.

If all I do in my life is soothe someone's spirit with a song , then let me do that and I'm happy.

If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world.

Since the whole world is now concerned more about K-pop, I want to make more great songs which can be listed to as classics.

Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it.

People are always asking me what my lyrics mean. Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. F**k them, darling. I say what any decent poet would say if you dared ask him to analyze his work: If you see it, dear, then it's there. ... I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics. ... I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.

I am in need of music that would flow Over my fretful, feeling finger-tips, Over my bitter-tainted, trembling lips, With melody, deep, clear, and liquid-slow. Oh, for the healing swaying, old and low, Of some song sung to rest the tired dead, A song to fall like water on my head, And over quivering limbs, dream flushed to glow! There is a magic made by melody: A spell of rest, and quiet breath, and cool Heart, that sinks through fading colors deep To the subaqueous stillness of the sea, And floats forever in a moon-green pool, Held in the arms of rhythm and of sleep.

Whenever anything negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it, although you may not see it at the time

The problem with comparison is that you always feel either better than someone else or worthless compared to someone else.

Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.

We all die in the end, but there's no reason to die in the middle.

Failure is an event, not a person. You are NOT a failure!

My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director. ... (when asked who wrote 'Some Enchanted Evening') Rodgers and Hammerstein, if you can imagine it taking two men to write one song. ... Good authors, too, who once knew better words now use only four-letter words writing prose. ... Brush up your Shakespeare and they'll all kowtow.

His Son Jesus, the Word of God, is our Instructor.... He is God and Creator.

A song can be more than words and music ... when sung with soul a song carries you to another world, to a place where no matter how much pain you feel, you are never alone.

The main reason for the colossal objects is the obvious one, to expand and intensify the presence of the vessel - the object.

When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.

The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.

What good is a cow that neither gives milk nor conceives? Similarly, what is the value of the birth of a son if he becomes neither learned nor a pure devotee of the Lord?

Queen songs tend to be about very personal things: personal dreams and personal ambitions.

The deeper we grow in the Spirit of Jesus Christ, the poorer we become - the more we realize that everything in life is a gift. The tenor of our lives becomes one of humble and joyful thanksgiving. Awareness of our poverty and ineptitude causes us to rejoice in the gift of being called out of darkness into wondrous light and translated into the kingdom of God's beloved Son.

Animal personalities have always intrigued me, the desire to find out more about them made a reader out of me.

The Big Bang banged, and for some reason we’re here. And that’s astonishing. And that we can understand that, that’s the most astonishing.

It is only in proportion as the Christian manifests the fruit of a genuine conversion that he is entitled to regard himself and be regarded by others as one of the called and elect of God. It is just in proportion as we add to our faith the other Christian graces that we have solid ground on which to rest in the assurance we belong to the family of Christ. It is not those who are governed by self-will, but "as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God" (Rom. 8:14).