Classic Quotes Collection

Anyone who believes that there is no such thing as global warming must be blind or unintelligent.

Systemic racism can have an ending. Police brutality can have an ending. Economic repression of Black and brown people can have an ending... A movement without action is a movement standing still. To those who say they care: Move more than your mouth. Move your feet to the polls, and use your hands to vote... Black lives do matter. And this is not another digital, viral trend, moment or hashtag, Yes, all lives do matter, but they only matter when black lives matter too.

It bothered me that my mother was crying all the time. She thought God might be punishing her for something... So I just told her I was happy to be blind and I think she felt better after that.

At 13 years old, you know you're a big star. OK, fine, but I want to go and watch Huckleberry Hound.

Everyone that was over 13 was my parent. Diana [Ross] was my momma. The Marvelettes were all my parents, The Contours... 'You can't have a candy bar now, you gotta study now, do this now.

Voting for Trump is like asking me to drive a car.

The Moog is a way to directly express what comes from your mind.

Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.

Anything worth thinking about is worth singing about.

When Johnson started singing, he seemed like a guy who could have sprung from the head of Zeus in full armor.

My big fear was that my guitar would go out of tune.

People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.

You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future.

Without freedom of speech, I might be in the swamp.

I wanna say hello to all the ex-hippies tonight. I've never been a hippie myself but I'm an honorary hippie.

My style was too erratic and hard to pigeonhole for the radio, and songs, to me, were more important that just light entertainment. They were my preceptor and guide into some altered consciousness of reality, some different republic, some liberated republic.

Sometimes people ask songwriters what a song means, not realizing if they had more words to explain it they would've used them in the song.

I can see God in a daisy. I can see God at night in the wind and rain. I see Creation just about everywhere. The highest form of song is prayer. King David's, Solomon's, the wailing of a coyote, the rumble of the Earth.

The thing about being misunderstood is that it diminishes your enjoyment of life.

She was the most erotic thing I'd ever seen. She was fair skinned and golden haired, full-blood Italian. The air was suddenly filled with banana leaves. We started talking and my head started to spin. Cupid's arrow had whistled past my ears before, but this time it hit me in the heart and the weight of it dragged me overboard.