Ed Foreman Quotes

The truth will set you free, but it's only slightly less scary than hell and a whole lot harder to get there.

Pain is a common emotion in many of my songs mainly because I often don't know other ways to express it adequately. In my songs I wrestle with the things that I don't understand.

You want songs to sound cohesive with the other songs on the record but when you first start writing you just want to write to tell the truth.

Why is it that everything is collapsing if gravity is pulling us together?

Usually for me, the melodic structures come out in the water and the lyrical ideas could come from a book I'm reading.

The song can be a little bit more of the mystery and leave the whole thing open ended. But there's something really gratifying about saying exactly what you mean.

If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit.

As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the audience love them, being over emotional.

My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.

I've been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky.

I know from experience that you should never give up on yourself or others, no matter what.

I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today.

Everything America should be, Muhammad Ali is.

Just look at the great Nelson Mandela. He came out of prison and saved his entire country. Some of the best people in the world have spent time in prison.

Filling a need is not merely good business; it's a basic attitude towards life. If you see a need, do whatever you can to meet that need.

Life tears at us and scars us as children so we adopt facades and masks to hide this part of us, to keep this sacred part of ourselves from the pain.

My best sunsets are always going to be in my home town, San Diego. Watching the sunset from the Pacific knowing that you're sleeping in your own bed, there's something special about that.

I love the idea that you can create a world through song.

Music is a handshake where I, as a songwriter, am only part of the equation. I love that, the fact that you can make the song your own.

I began thinking about the idea of a 24 hour concert. What if you tied songs to certain hours of the day - creating a 24 hour world of lyric and melody. So that was the inspiration for this project.

The scope of art is practically boundless; it does not begin and end with the painting of pictures and the modeling of statues; where there is room for workmanship there is room for it.

It's true, I don't like the real world.

I hope to have one more boxing match at the age of 55. Given that demographic at the age of 55 to 65, you've got to make a statement with your life. Otherwise, you are just existing.

Capitalism is a cancer in the biosphere.

As an entrepreneur, don't follow the crowd; let them follow you.

All my sons are named George Foreman. They all know where they came from.

If comparison is the thief of joy, then our culture is being robbed blind.

I've always been fascinated with the strong emotional ties that music can have. A song can bring you back to a place or a season of life like no other art form can.

Please be slow to judge ‘brothers’ who have a different calling.

There are a lot of similarities between music and surfing. There's a rhythm to both of them and with sound waves and ocean waves, you see patterns, plus the breathing is all part of it.

You don't approach a case with the philosophy of applying abstract justice-you go in to win

Humanity is the cancer of nature.

Free shackled rivers!...The finest fantasy of eco-warriors in the West is the destruction of [Glen Canyon] Dam and the liberation of the Colorado [River].

My heroes used to be cowboys.

Worry is nothing less than the misuse of your imagination

For the lazy, all work is difficult.

Disaster falls on those who try hardest to avoid it.

We, too, need to be patient, especially when it comes to reaching new goals.

Learn to sell and you'll never starve

A boxer never sees the big one that hits him.

I look at my children and one thing I'm most proud of, in my heart, are my children.

Heroes have a rough time because they stand up when they ought not to, they speak when they ought not to; they always have to go that extra mile.

No doubt about it, in my career Ron Lyle hit me the hardest. One time he hit me so hard I didn't see it until I saw it on film when I woke up!

I didn't come back for the money. I just got sick of beating people up for free.

Nobody can do everything well, so learn how to delegate responsibility to other winners and then hold them accountable for their decisions.

If you can maintain that integrity in whatever you do, you can't go wrong.

They say I don't fight guys unless they're on a respirator. That's incorrect. They have to be at least 3 days off a respirator.

George Foreman. A miracle. A mystery to myself. Who am I? The mirror says back. The George you was always meant to be. Wasn't always like that. Used to look in the mirror and cried a river.

All the dogs I have are German shepherds from Germany, and I fly them back to Germany to show them.

A Jack Russell terrier? My god. He'll burn you up. They never stop. A German shepherd, you can only go so many miles.