Son Quotes - Page 114

Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly.

You say how you feel, and songs don't lie. Songs are the most honest form of human expression there is--there's nothing that lies about a song.

All the songs we do are basically about one of three things: booze, sex or rock n roll.

The Son of Man has authority over whatever has you paralyzed. Get up and walk.

The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty

An act of violence against any innocent person eludes moral justification, disgraces the millions of Americans and people throughout the world who have united in peaceful protest against police brutality, and dishonors our proud inheritance of nonviolent resistance.

A truly happy person is someone who is joyfully independent of outer conditions.

If someone asked me if I could have anything in the world, what would l want? If l could own anything, like owning a piece of art, l think it would be Elton John's publishing, on his first seven albums. I don't want the money. Being able to own those songs Is like owning a painting of someone you admire.

It is better to love every person, than to wait for one person to love you.

Here is the manliness of manhood, that a man has a good reason for what he does, and has a will in doing it.

You don’t need a reason to be happy...your desire to be so is sufficient.

You will be right, over the course of many transactions, if your hypotheses are correct, your facts are correct, and your reasoning is correct. True conservatism is only possible through knowledge and reason.

To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life

I truly believe that everything happens for a reason. So you asked, ‘When things get really, really difficult in your life, what keeps you going?’ For me, it’s always that the most difficult moments in my life, the moments in which I believe I’ve completely failed or hit bottom, I can actually directly link them to something later that is either a true success or a dream come true. So, I do believe that if you can maintain that everything happens for a reason, you can find the strength and the lesson in those difficult moments and grow stronger.

I will always believe in love and I don't care what happens to me or how many times I get my heart broken, or how many breakup songs I write, I'm always going to believe that someday I am going to meet somebody who is actually right for me and he's going to be wonderful and it's going to work out.

There're songs to make you smile, there're songs to make you sad. But with a happy song to sing it never seems as bad.

All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the craft.

Find a happy person, and you will find a project.

Then with Lucy [Hale], her little thing that I kind of learned from her is her country music because she’s obsessed with country and at the beginning, I wasn’t a huge fan of it, but I was listening to some songs that she plays in the hair and makeup room and she’s also so funny, too. She does these character impersonations and they’re just so funny. Made up characters of course, but she can switch into someone else so fast. I’m always laughing at Lucy and she’s like a little Polly Pocket, you know? The tiny one.

Cheer up every person you interact with (including yourself).

It is the individual's ability to deal with the unexpected that characterizes the difference between success and failure.

An intelligent person hires people who are more intelligent than he is.

To create is not to deform or invent persons and things. It is to tie new relationships between persons and things which are, and as they are.

It's a big theme in my life, learning about myself and being a better person. I'm a work in progress; I have revelations every day.

As a musician and a guitar player, I can noodle as well as anybody. But from my background as a session musician, I always try to play what is called for by the lyric and listening to the song. As a writer, that's what I do, too.