Son Quotes - Page 65

You'll need coffee shops and sunsets and road trips. Airplanes and passports and new songs and old songs, but people more than anything else. You will need other people and you will need to be that other person to someone else, a living breathing screaming invitation to believe better things.

Music just ain't what it used to; We used to have songs that you could shoplift or boost to.

We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

The lessons we learn from the wild become the etiquette of freedom.

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it.

God took the beauty of the Bay of Naples, the Valley of the Nile, the Swiss Alps, the Hudson River Valley, rolled them into one and made San Francisco Bay.

Good advertising is written from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone.

Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.

Faith and joy are the ascensive forces of song.

I emphatically denounce Paul Ryan's use of my song 'We're Not Gonna Take It' as recorded by my band Twisted Sister. There is almost nothing on which I agree with Paul Ryan, except perhaps the use of the P90X.

Success can come to a person who has failed, but it will never come to a person who quits

It's a strange lesson to learn in life that your differences, the things that make you feel uncomfortable about yourself are what will help you to grow into who you are. Those are your gifts.

I soon discovered that man's importunity is God's opportunity. he uses our problems as building materials for his miracles. I began to understand that this was my first lesson in learning to trust him completely, my first steps on the path to complete dependence on, and obedience to, his guidance.

A monster is a person who has stopped pretending.

A great song should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good.

Reason is a passion; an instinct, a drive.

As for methods I have sought to give them all the rigour that one requires in geometry, so as never to have recourse to the reasons drawn from the generality of algebra.

Being silent for a while is good. Words can't really express a person's emotions.

There cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek answers for his unceasing hows and whys about things.

Christianity is a love relationship between a child of God and his Maker through the Son Jesus Christ and in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there. Make motivation a habit and you will get there more quickly and have more fun on the trip.

For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often, some persons would say, write us a symphony or write us a song, on commission. The artists would come up with a masterpiece without waiting to have their muse inspire them.

Love doesn't need a reason. Hate needs a reason.