Son Quotes - Page 63

A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.

The personality must be bigger than the prop.

The autistic personality is an extreme variant of male intelligence.

As a busker, one thing that does not work is self-consciousness. A busker needs to be working. A busker needs to shed all ego and get down to work. Play your songs, play them well, earn your money, and don't get in people's way.

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

. . . an absurd problem came to the surface: 'How COULD God permit that (crucifixion of Jesus Christ)!' . . . the deranged reason of the little community found quite a frightfully absurd answer: God gave his Son for forgiveness, as a SACRIFICE . . . The SACRIFICE FOR GUILT, and just in its most repugnant and barbarous form - the sacrifice of the innocent for the sins of the guilty! What horrifying heathenism!

You can do anything you want to do.

A relationship has to be cultivated. There have to be feelings of love for another first. But then you have to really like the person.

In nature everything is valuable, everything has its place. The rose, the daisy, the lark, the squirrel, each is different but beautiful. Each has its own expression. Each flower its' own fragrance. Each bird its' own song. So you too have your own unique melody.

You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.

You will train always for a hundred terrific reasons. Quit and it will be for no good reason at all.

Reason must be the universal rule and guide; all things must be done according to reason without allowing oneself to be swayed by emotion.

The void created by the failure to communicate is soon filled with poison, drivel and misrepresentation.

Your youth is the most important thing you will ever have. It's when you will connect to music like a primal urge, and the memories attached to the songs will never leave you. Please hold on to everything. Keep every note, mix tape, concert ticket stub, and memory you have of music from your youth. It'll be the one thing that might keep you young, even if you aren't anymore.

Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop's another one, I suppose. Because in your songs you're talking about how good a hip-hop artist you are. It's like a painter painting a panting of himself painting a painting.

You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.

I'm not ashamed of anything that I've done because when I did it, I was passionate about it and I was doing it for a reason.

All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess.

We never love anyone. Not really. We only love our idea of another person. It is some conception of our own that we love. We love ourselves, in fact.

Marriage is a total commitment and a total sharing of the total person with another person until death.

Jail is a good experience but it has its drawbacks ... all the disadvantages of married life with none of its compensations.

What leader has no lessons to learn from his followers?

Remember that mentor leadership is all about serving. Jesus said, “For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45).

Religion: 'My identity is built on being a good person.' Gospel: 'My identity is not built on my record or my performance but on Christ's.'