Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I’m conscious of the mainstream without selling out.

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Who’s to say what’s a good voice and not a good voice?

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

An unused life is an early death.

I know people said I wasn’t selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you’re talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted.

I don’t know if it’s changing already with ‚Joanne,‘ but my intention is to bring people together that don’t know each other and that would maybe feel awkward, but somehow be brought together by the music. That’s what I wanted to do. Because that is pure and authentic to my family history and what I stand for.

It’s pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

I don’t think a song should be put in a category.

I find that when I get on stage now, I don’t want to perform a lot of my songs because they don’t feel like me. So I want to make songs that are timeless.

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.

Water is life, and clean water means health.

To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one’s youth back again?

Lots of songs aren’t even from my experiences, but they’re about accepting… the dark things about yourself.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

When I’m writing, I’m thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don’t translate onstage. No matter how potent the music, you lose the crowd. They want a hook; they want to sing your stuff back to you.

If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn’t us. Don’t be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

‚Pure experience‘ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

I’m not going to make a song just to make a song. The day that I make an album, it’s so that people really know what Bad Bunny’s about.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

Instruments sound interesting, not because of their sound, but because of the relationship a player has with them. Instrumentalists build a rapport with their instruments, which is what you like and respond to.

I don’t know which will go first – rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

I just hope people don’t get sick of us. I’m sick of us and I’m in Destiny’s Child.

With music, you often don’t have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don’t know why.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

If you want to find the source of much of the music of modern day Russia, you will find it in the incredible compositions of that crazed lunatic Berlioz.

I think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because eventually what goes up must come down – we’re not going to be the number one group in the world forever – so you have to have something else to fall back on.

Life must be lived as play.

For some reason, I’m really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs.

The effect of music on fashion has been immense, especially hip-hop and urban music.

Everyone my age probably grew up listening to the ‚perreos‘ of Plan B.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

Rhythm is something you either have or don’t have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

My life is mine to remember.

I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever!

They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won’t get played Huh?

Open Graph is a language for structuring content and sharing that goes on in other apps, and we’re continuing to build it out longer term. But we found we need to build more specific experiences around categories like music or movies. Where we’ve taken the time to build those specific experiences, stuff has gone quite well.

I want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer’s block.

There’s an ecstatic side to writing. It’s like jazz. It just has a life.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.

When it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few years later it became sort of serious-looking and a bit foreboding.

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.