This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine – it kinda sucks the life out of music.

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

Singing aloud leaves you with a sense of levity and contentedness.

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

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.

U2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

I think Mozart’s operas ‚The Marriage of Figaro‘ and ‚Don Giovanni‘ are the two most perfect ever written. The music is magical.

The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.

It is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

I am in the world feeling my way to light ‚amid the encircling gloom.‘

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

I just kept touring and touring until it became second nature to go onstage, perform, and sing.

In ‚Changeling,‘ I tried to show something you’d never see nowadays – a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest.

I listen to music all day every day. I can’t not listen to music. It’s kind of scary how much I listen to music, but it’s what I love, and it’s all I care about, so I’m good with it.

The music we do is for people to enjoy, dance and sing to it. Dreamers – keep on dreaming and keep working hard to achieve your goals. There are many difficulties, but what matters is to stay focused and have perseverance.

I like being able to be on the inside of music, rather than on the outside listening to it.

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.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

I love good, loud speakers.

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any forum that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

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.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

I’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

Look at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America.

All Montreal bands have around nine members, I believe.

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.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

One often makes music to supplement one’s world.

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage.

My mami and papi love my music. They’re always listening to the radio waiting for one of my songs to come on. And when it does, they turn up the volume – and turn it back down when it’s over.

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn’t see any rock & roll bands.

I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It’s still got the same strings on it.

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

Man, I’m the No. 1 living and breathing rock star. I am Axl Rose; I am Jim Morrison; I am Jimi Hendrix.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.

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

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.

There’s something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There’s something that invites all this obsessive behavior.

I don’t like to feel like I’m in a club when I’m in my car and I turn on the radio. Anything that ceases to be a song and just sounds like house music kind of stresses me out.

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 liberate minds with my music. That’s more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.