Classic Quotes Collection

You don't expect music to be brilliant when the films are so bad.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

If you aren't gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all.

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won't last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don't realize that.

When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.

I've arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane.

Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through any one that suits you.

Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.

Knowledge cannot be taken away from anyone except by obsolescence.

Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.

Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.

The guitar is your first wings. It's assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human.