Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.
George WashingtonDo not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
George Bernard ShawReligion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiNothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.
Blaise PascalYou tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.
Pope FrancisThe pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
Carl JungTo walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
George OrwellThe longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‚renouncing‘ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‚happy‘ or ‚unhappy‘ in the usual meaning of the words.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinThe arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
Edmund BurkeI 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.
Marilyn MonroeAn idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
Elbert HubbardThe optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
J. Robert OppenheimerLittera scripta manet – ‚The written word will remain‘. That’s true, but it won’t be that much comfort to me.
Christopher HitchensI love Chris Brown. He’s a superstar. He’s one of the best singers out there.
DJ KhaledPoetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
AristotleOur care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaA lot of people don’t realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.
Dolly PartonLet him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
Robert FrostAs the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
Arthur SchopenhauerWe know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMany a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
Khalil Gibran‚Jolene‘ has been very popular all of these years, even overseas.
Dolly PartonWhatever I’m feeling, whatever I’m going through, whatever mood I’m in… If I’m feeling like dancing or clubbing, then it will be reflected in the music. If I’m feeling dark and vulnerable, then it will reflect in the music, too.
RihannaTalking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
Joseph AddisonThe first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too – eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko’s, Fatburger, Subway – I was a sandwich artist – and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance.
Frank OceanWhat difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Mahatma GandhiYou know, there are artists who are 35 and up that still make rap and that still works for them. I don’t know if I want to be that guy.
DrakeIt’s about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story, and all kinds of sonic goodness – sonic goodies.
Frank OceanWhosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Francis BaconThe wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.
Mark TwainAn intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwight D. EisenhowerYou can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.
Billie EilishIf you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.
Stephen HawkingMy old drama coach used to say, ‚Don’t just do something, stand there.‘ Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing.
Clint EastwoodThe universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.
Bertrand RussellIf we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?
Carl SaganThe first rap CD that I had, it was so different for me. The energy, the wordplay, all that caught my attention, and I liked it.
Bad BunnyA lot of truth is said in jest.
EminemOne of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds.
Frank ZappaThe true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Albert EinsteinA man should be upright, not be kept upright.
Marcus AureliusWe must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.
George Bernard ShawHe who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.
Franz KafkaThere are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
Albert SchweitzerThou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
AristotleMusic is like film to me.
The WeekndWhen we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
William ShakespeareA scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
Lao TzuYour personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.
Dave GrohlWhen we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.
Winston ChurchillNecessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
Friedrich NietzscheFrom the beginning of my rap career, since I was seen and heard, I always had a store.
Nipsey Hussle‚Trilogy‘ was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn’t left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my entire life on one setting; that’s probably why pieces of the album feel like one long track, because that’s what my life felt like. It felt like one long song.
The WeekndIt is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
Gilbert K. ChestertonAll nature is but art unknown to thee.
Alexander PopeThe fool wonders, the wise man asks.
Benjamin DisraeliHappiness is a virtue, not its reward.
Baruch SpinozaI really love Linkin Park, and I loved Chester Bennington, and it is horrible what happened to him. I grew up listening to him because my dad would make these mixtapes with a lot of different artists – Linkin Park, Avril Lavigne, The Beatles, Sarah McLachlan, I just really loved Linkin Park, and their production is really sick.
Billie EilishWe are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
Ray BradburyMany men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
Alexander Pope