The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it’s usually lousy.
Dwight D. EisenhowerI have a very eclectic iPod. So I’ve got my cardio people – so it’s anything from Beyonce to some Jay-Z to Janelle Monae, her song ‚Tightrope,‘ that’s a good cardio song. And then I’ve got Sting. I’ve got Mary J. Blige. I’ve got The Beatles. I’ve got Michael Jackson. I try to pick the songs that I personally love.
Michelle ObamaAt best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.
Henry AdamsWhen I listen to a song, I don’t say, ‚Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.‘ I’m thinking, ‚That lyric just moves me. That lyric just said what I feel better than I could say it myself.‘
Taylor SwiftWe all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.
Joyce MeyerI used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I’d get her up and off to school, and then I would go back to bed and meditate. And then I would do the same in the evening, and that was very good for that period because I had so many things to juggle as a single mother.
Alice WalkerNo one sells a song better than the person that wrote it.
Bruno MarsTrue self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There’s no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected.
Thich Nhat HanhThere is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.
Friedrich NietzscheThe royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Dale CarnegieStyle is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
Robert FrostA work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
Oscar WildeA man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
Albert CamusIn one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.
Edgar Allan PoeWho you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIn my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, ‚Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn’t understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn’t fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn’t want it to get any worse. You’re the mother of my kids – I don’t want to hate you.‘
Kevin HartMeditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiAt one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn’t exist except as a part of everything.
Alice WalkerThe foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.
BuddhaA bachelor’s life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
Francis BaconFind joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.
Wayne DyerNo one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone’s eyes.
Paulo CoelhoMan only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.
Fyodor DostoevskyI suppose for me as an artist it wasn’t always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.
David BowiePapa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
Charles DickensMen always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
Gilbert K. ChestertonExceptionally hard decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If you mentally crumble and degenerate into negative thinking, you’ll magnify the problem to the point where it can haunt you.
John C. MaxwellLet us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.
Mark TwainThought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.
Eckhart TolleArt is man’s expression of his joy in labor.
Henry KissingerI don’t know if I ever feel totally great about a record when I put it out. With every record that I put out, someone has literally got to come pry it from me because when I listen to my own music, I just hear flaws in it.
EminemI consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry.
Lady GagaI very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.
Albert EinsteinThou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
AristotleI don’t think I’d ever apologise for music I make, no.
The WeekndYou can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
Franz KafkaThe golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
George EliotHere’s what I think about music and journalism: The most important thing is to just press play.
Frank OceanI definitely think, generally, rap is misogynistic.
Kanye WestI got a signed document from Bullock’s saying that they had such-and-such drawings on consignment. Of course, nobody bought any of them, but otherwise, I was a big success: I had my drawings on sale at Bullock’s!
Richard P. FeynmanI wish I could make music about politics. I feel like it’s such an art and a talent that I admire tremendously, but when I step into the studio, I step out of the real world, and it’s therapeutic.
The WeekndI think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.
Thich Nhat HanhI’ve gotten used to being Frank Ocean.
Frank OceanI’ve never written a political song. Songs can’t save the world. I’ve gone through all that.
Bob DylanWhat makes you a SEAL, what makes you a SEAL is being a good tactician on the battle field, understanding how to shoot, move, and communicate, knowing small unit maneuver warfare. That’s what makes a good SEAL, and so that is the course of instruction that I taught, was getting SEAL platoons ready for deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Jocko WillinkEvery blessing ignored becomes a curse.
Paulo CoelhoLatin music is universal.
Bad BunnyMick Fleetwood was one of my first interviews. And if you’ve ever talked to that dude, he’s the sweetest guy in the world – he’s just a trip.
Dave GrohlIt’s always fun to talk about jazz.
Clint EastwoodWhen we go out to the country and just sit there, what we’re really doing is just switching off various kinds of alertness that we don’t have to use. When we do that, we are stopping being defensive. We are no longer shutting ourselves off from different types of experiences, we are welcoming them in.
Brian EnoEvery man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.
Martin Luther King, Jr.It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
Harry S. TrumanWith music, you often don’t have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don’t know why.
David ByrneI exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.
Joe BidenLike a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I’ll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, ‚I’d like to write about that.‘ Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.
Maya AngelouHear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.
Benjamin FranklinPeople have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.
Kurt VonnegutThe writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression – all of that is very important.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerI think if I did something in the pop world right now, it would be for Rihanna. I’d love to do something production wise for her.
J. ColeTones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.
Ludwig van Beethoven