Son Quotes - Page 125

Every person that you meet knows at least one thing that you don't. Don't let them leave without learning it.

Everything I do, whether it's producing or signing an artist, always starts with the songs. When I'm listening, I'm looking for a balance that you could see in anything. Whether it's a great painting or a building or a sunset.

But I'm just having fun playing and giving Botox injections to the older songs.

I'd like to be born the son of a duke with 90,000 pounds a year, on an enormous estate.... And I'd like to have the most enormous library, and I'd like to think that I could read those books forever and forever, and die unlamented, unknown, unsung, unhonored - and packed with information.

There is no better reason in life for you to something than because you love it.

There is no reason why an atheist could not write a good Mass.

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

When I am tempted to complain about God's lack of presence, I remind myself that God has much more reason to complain about my lack of presence.

We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.

A lesson will keep repeating itself until it is learned. Life first will send the lesson to you in the size of a pebble; if you ignore the pebble, then life will send you a brick; if you ignore the brick, life will send you a brick wall; if you ignore the brick wall, life will send you a demolition truck.

I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.

How is faith to endure, O God, when you allow all this scraping and tearing on us? You have allowed rivers of blood to flow, mountains of suffering to pile up, sobs to become humanity's song--all without lifting a finger that we could see. You have allowed bonds of love beyond number to be painfully snapped. If you have not abandoned us, explain yourself.We strain to hear. But instead of hearing an answer we catch sight of God himself scraped and torn. Through our tears we see the tears of God.

But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles.

The primary reason for failure is that people do not develop new plans to replace those plans that didn't work.

I have had many successes and many failures in my life. My successes have always been for different reasons, but my failures have always been for the same reason: I said yes when I meant no.

The attitude is in my personality. It's going to come out in the songs no matter what. If you're pushing the vocal constantly at 10, there's no room for any dynamics. There's no room for any variation in tone. There's no room for anything.

I become the stars and the moon. I become the lover and the beloved. I become the victor and the vanquished. I become the master and the slave. I become the singer and the song. I become the knower and the known. I keep on dancing then, it is the eternal dance or creation. The creator and creation merge into one wholeness of joy. I keep on dancing and dancing...and dancing. Until there is only...the dance.

A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn't implement any of it.

I respect women like Gloria Steinem who paved the way. But when you say 'feminist' now, there is a message that if you are sexy and you acknowledge that part of your personality publicly, then it's somehow an affront to women. And I reject that.

In some of the best worship songs we bring our praises to God - yet at the same time also end up preaching to ourselves.

Egos appear by setting themselves apart from other egos.Persons appear byentering into relationwith other persons.

Only Christ can free us from the prison of legalism, and then only if we are willing to be freed.

Love is learning the song in someone's heart and singing it to them when they forget.

I think people who don't believe in God are crazy. How can you say there is no God when you hear the birds singing these beautiful songs you didn't make?