Son Quotes - Page 64

I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright.

It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.

As the sun is best seen at his rising and setting, so men's native dispositions are clearest seen when they are children, and when they are dying.

I understand why some kid in his bedroom in Wisconsin thinks downloading songs couldn't hurt anyone. True fans will buy the CD or go see the movie after downloading, but to say it doesn't affect anyone - come on.

There are times when telling lies are not a bad thing. It can be a compassionate thing. But to make it benign, you have to be aware of your compassionate reasons for telling that lie.

Our very genesis was not really a beginning after all, but indeed the product of a personality-Father Mills.

I don't work at being ordinary.

The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.

Style is an extension of yourself. My approach is to enhance the personality of the wearer, so he has his own voice

With Great power comes great need to take a nap

Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!

I got one entire song from fortune cookies (Land of Sunshine). On another one, I took words from different Frank Sinatra songs and pasted them together. Another one, I was just driving around and there was a piece of paper on the ground, so I stole it.

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

I believe that every person has uniqueness - something that nobody else has.

Join with the Earth and each other, to bring new life to the land, to restore the waters, to refresh the air, to renew the forests, to care for the plants, to protect the creatures, to celebrate the seas, to rejoice in the sunlight, to sing the song of the stars, to recall our destiny, to renew our spirits, to reinvigorate our bodies, to recreate the human community, to promote justice and peace, to love our children and love one another, to join together as many and diverse expressions of one loving mystery, for the healing of the Earth and the renewal of all life.

You always have to work to become a better singer, songwriter and performer.

I don’t tweet for a very simple reason, which is that I drink.

Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.

That's the beauty of song writing. You never know when inspiration will come or how it will hit, you just gotta kinda grasp a hold of it and make sense of it somehow.

Take my hand and we'll make it - I swear

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

Art is a liaison between some sort of deranged mentality and others who are not going through it.

One of the biggest reasons I bought the Lakers was to beat the Celtics.

A garden is a love song, a duet between a human being and Mother Nature.

Sometimes you fall in love with a song 'cause it's new, it's exciting and you just birthed it. Then you fall out of love sometimes. But the strongest songs always survive and you come back and you fall in love all over again.