I resent the implication that I’m less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experience, but that’s not where I live.

I taught myself to play the guitar by listening to Paul Simon records, working it out note by note. He is an incredibly intelligent musician. He’s not someone who has a natural outpouring of melody like McCartney or Dylan, who are just terribly prolific with musical ideas.

I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.

They’ll forget all the rubbish when I’ve gone, and they’ll remember the football. If only one person thinks I’m the best player in the world, that’s good enough for me.

Regardless of what society says, we can’t go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

I got a lot of support from my parents. That’s the one thing I always appreciated. They didn’t tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man – the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

It’s cool to be recognised by your peers.

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you’re living your life. I wouldn’t compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it’s about a man who doesn’t appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I’m a producer. I’m a writer.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

Being ‚contented‘ ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.

No one sells a song better than the person that wrote it.

I never thought a career as a musician was possible.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.

I just want to keep writing music.

Cause I’m a musician, I’m not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

I do probably 60 concerts a year in the States. And I go out to clubs in the week. I’m doing new stuff all the time.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

The way to know life is to love many things.

I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.

There is so much that people take for granted.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

I love my daddy. My daddy’s everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person’s enemies say about him.

I always joke that my kids‘ favorite holiday is Father’s Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It’s my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one’s person.

I performed in a bowling alley before while people were still bowling. Cut the check, and I will perform anywhere.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

Mick 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.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

It’s an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

The artist part of me always wants to be appreciated. I read every review. But I never wanted to seek validation by awards or anything controlled by politics.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn’t.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time.