“Music is everybody's business. It's only the publishers who think people own it”
“Tell me what you listen to, and I'll tell you who you are.”
Source: How to Kill a Rock Star
“Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.”
Source: The Republic
“It's just nice, I guess. Knowing that someone else can put into words what I feel. That there are people who have been through things worse than I have, and they come out on the other side okay. Not only that, but they made some kind of twisted, fucked-up sense of the completely senseless. They made it mean something. These songs tell me I'm not alone. If you look at it at that way, music... music can see you through anything.”
Source: Saving June
“Most people feel if they could only get enough money, then life would finally be enjoyable, but I can promise you it doesn't work that way.”
Source: Billionaire Cab Driver: Timeless Lessons for Financial Success
“But when ye come, and all the flowers are dying,
If I am dead, as dead I well may be,
You'll come and find the place where I am lying,
And kneel and say Ave there for me,
And I shall hear, though soft you tread above me,
And all my grave will warmer, sweeter be,
For you will bend and tell me that you love me,
And I shall sleep in peace until you come to me”
“I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you play the stereo at max volume, it's almost like the other people can't see into your vehicle. It tints your windows, somehow.”
Source: Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
“When I am ..... completely myself, entirely alone... or during the night when I cannot sleep, it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how these ideas come I know not nor can I force them.”
“Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.”
Source: The Complete Poems
“Sometimes the collapse isn’t the end of your story—it’s the page where you finally start telling the truth.”
Source: The Fire That Remakes You: A Proven Roadmap to Overcoming Burnout, Rebuilding Resilience, and Rising from Life’s Hardest Setbacks