Son Quotes - Page 69

Friday' is about hanging out with friends, having fun. I felt like it was my personality in that song.

The Christian church was born in song.

People are terrible. They can bear anything. Anything! People are hard and brutal. And everyone is disposable. Everyone! That's the lesson.

The songs of our ancestors are also the songs of our children

We should not forget, no matter how we quantify it: 'Freedom is not free.' It is a painful lesson, but one from which we have learned in the past and one we should never forget.

Anarchy is a state of society where the only government is reason.

Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it.

The difference between mercy and grace? Mercy gave the prodigal son a second chance. Grace gave him a feast.

If you cannot love yourself, you have no chance to love another person.

When you helped somebody, right away you were responsible for that person. And things always followed for which you were never prepared.

I was eventually to become one person, gathered up maybe, during a pause, at a comma.

That I am your heart's secret fills me with song. I wish I could sing of you here in my cage. You are my heart's hidden poem. I reread you, memorize you every moment we're apart.

Write for the right reasons - i.e. yourself.

Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other people to come and jump in.

Maybe a reason why all the doors are closed So you can open one that leads you to the perfect road.

I've been in love with you since the very beginning. You asked why there isn't anyone else in my life, and the reason... is you" - J.D.

The best thing a person can be is of-some-use.

A mad person sees what isn't there; A visionary sees what isn't there yet

His hooves pound the beat, your heart sings the song.

Leadership is not about personality, possessions, or charisma, but all about who you are as a person. I used to believe that leadership was about style but now I know that leadership is about substance, namely character.

Sexuality, and sexual orientation - regardless of orientation - is just natural. An act of sex is one of the most human things. But an organization like the church, say, through its doctrine, would undermine humanity by successfully teaching shame about sexual orientation - that it is sinful, or that it offends God. The song is about asserting yourself and reclaiming your humanity through an act of love.

Failing to remember is the primary reason for most performers' poor practising habits.

One of the biggest lessons we can learn in life is to do everything possible to reach an accord with the individual we are having trouble with.

It's not just a revue where one song is done, then another. There are concepts and ideas at work.

My philosophy when it came to pets was much like that of having children: You got what you got, and you loved them unconditionally regardless of whatever their personalities or flaws turned out to be.