Favourite Quotes and Quotations

[MelissaConstantReader]

The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket.
-Will Rogers

[blunthead]

Jimi Hendrix vol 1...

All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland.

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

I have this one little saying, when things get too heavy just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.

I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked.

I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.

I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

If I'm free, it's because I'm always running.

It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.

[Haunted]

Sometimes its better to put love into hugs than to put it into words.
~ Unknown

[Haunted]

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

[blunthead]

Jimi Hendrix vol 2...

It all has to come from inside, though, I guess.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

Music is a safe kind of high.

Music is my religion.

Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.

Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows.

See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues.

Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded.

The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.

[Becks19]

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
- Jacques Barzun

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
- Robert Brault

Morality is contraband in war.
- Mahatma Gandhi

[blunthead]

Jimi Hendrix vol 3...

The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.

To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

When I die, just keep playing the records.

You don't have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people. You don't have to keep flashing those words all the time.

You have to give people something to dream on.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

[Haunted]

Never fear shadows.... that always means there is a light shining somewhere.
~ Jonathan Santos

[DeathStalker]

Never fear shadows.... that always means there is a light shining somewhere.
~ Jonathan Santos

Not arguing here, your quote brought some of these to mind...

"...there can be no good without evil, no love without hate, no heaven without hell, no light without darkness." Legend

"What is light without dark? What are you without me? I am a part of you all. You can never defeat me. We are brothers eternal!" The Lord of Darkness Legend

And on a slightly different note -

"Mother is the name for God on the lips and hearts of all children." Eric Draven The Crow

[blunthead]

Bob Dylan vol 1...

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.