Popular Quotes Through Time

I've had some incredibly triumphal things happen in my life.

I might do something in Arabic. I might do something in Hebrew.

Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person.

I think honestly, some people who think they're gay, they're confused.

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egotistically - I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it.

God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done.

Time is long but life is short.

The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.

I don't know if I believe in luck. I think I'm very fortunate.

I grew up playing in clubs - that's my spiritual stomping ground.

Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. No contest.

I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to me, that I could cross any kind of border to get on there.

Although they can do it all the time, you know, they're far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they're out of my league.

From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn't need a middleman, whereas all the other things in school needed some kind of explanation.

My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice.

I used to do crazy things that people would bail me out of, and I'm just grateful that I survived. But the music got very lost; I didn't know where I was going, and I didn't really care. I was more into just having a good time, and I think it showed.

I wish I could write easily. I'm one of those guys who's visited by the muse when things are dire.

Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.

The first guitar I ever had was a gut-string Spanish guitar, and I couldn't really get the hang of it. I was only 13, and I talked my grandparents into buying it for me. I tried and tried and tried, but got nowhere with it.