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

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

Everywhere I go, the kids call me ‚the book lady.‘ The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the ‚book lady‘ title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I’ve done something good with my life and with my success.

Even though I’m known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.

I know a lot of people who wouldn’t be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don’t understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It’s an individual-feel thing, you know?

In my entire life, any time I’ve ever lost something, I’ve gotten something even better going around the next corner. It’s like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they’re going to throw away, I know I can be fine.

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

In order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

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

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

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.

We need someone with superb judgement in their own right because, yes, a president can hire the best advisors on Earth, but I guarantee you this: Five advisors will give five different opinions. And it is the president – and the president alone – who always makes the final call.

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

The roaring thunder of the law and the fear of the terror of judgment are both used to bring us to Christ, but the final victory culminating in our salvation is won through God’s loving-kindness.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

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.

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar – hide in the back and just play.

When one’s expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

I never thought a career as a musician was possible.

Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.

In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

Jeb Bush, I appreciate you. You a leader. You a Bush.

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

As I’ve said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis‘ future.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

I’m a singer, not a politician, and I think you don’t want the two to get confused. It’s not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

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

My career as Nipsey Hussle is based on my life as Ermias Asghedom.

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.

If you judge, investigate.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

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.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

I don’t want flowers or candy or anything like that. I just want somebody to say, ‚Wow, you’ve done a great job.‘

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

I’ve always loved black culture; I don’t know any other way to put it. Since I was a kid I loved music and early jazz, Sly and the Family Stone. I’m older – I’m in my early 50s – so you’ll have to excuse me. That was always very exciting to me to connect to the culture on that level.

It feels good to have your work respected again.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

A man makes you feel important – makes you glad you are a woman.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.