Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.

Today, I’d like to talk to Bob Marley. I’d just like to ask him what was his method. Bob is one of the greatest songwriters ever. I don’t know if people understand how powerful his songs are and the simplicity and genius behind them, from ‚Redemption Song‘ to ‚Is This Love?‘ and ‚I Shot the Sheriff.‘

I want more of my favorite artists or more of the guy that makes the anthems. I want more.

I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

There’s something missing in the music industry today… and it’s music. Songs you hear don’t last, it’s just product fed to you by the industry.

When I was performing the songs on ‚Kiss Land,‘ it was a great singalong. But there were moments where I realized some parts were catchier than the others. There’s maybe two choruses on all of ‚Kiss Land.‘

The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, ‚What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?‘ And, ‚How does creativity apply across the board?‘

I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

All my records and videos were groundbreaking.

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

My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. They met at a show where my dad was playing percussion. My mom was a hula dancer.

As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of ‚easy believism.‘ There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.

The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head.

The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.

Music has the power to inspire the world.

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it’s just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

I’m working on my life story. I’m not decided if it’s going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.

One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can’t swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it’s what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.

I get a more passionate delivery when I just go in the booth and let the music talk.

I always want to create and do things, or draw.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

I was always interested in choreography – in making people think and feel something.

I 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.

When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.

Cause when you’re sequencing a record, you want the listener to stick with it from beginning to end, and in order to do that, you really have to map out the journey from the first song to the last.

I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I’d just write.

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

I really wish I knew what I was doing because I’d be writing hit songs every minute.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I’ll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there’s no pressure.

I own a ’66 Jaguar. That’s the guitar I polish, and baby – I refuse to let anyone touch it when I jump into the crowd.

I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I’m super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

Music is not math. It’s science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.

We based the look on rock ‚n roll right from the beginning.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.

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

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter’s soul.

I’ve been trying to… Having been an English literary graduate, I’ve been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity.

White… is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black… God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

I always say, you gotta play a dive bar like you play an arena, and you play an arena like you play a dive bar.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

I won’t be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn’t mean I want them to stop looking.

My style influences my music and everything around me.

Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

Music is this divine thing, the closest that we can get to something divine. It’s like this instinct we all own, and some of us have found a way to hear that music and write it down and share it with people.

I just really want to get music out and tour and go places I’ve never been, and just do more videos. I love photography and videography, and so I really want to direct videos when I can.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

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

There’s a reason why the Foo Fighters don’t blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we have a lot of respect for them. You know, that’s hallowed ground. We have to be careful. We have to tread lightly. We have talked about it before, but the opportunity hasn’t really come up, or it just hasn’t felt right.