M.white Quotes

Goodness, Time's rude hand defies, And winter lives when beauty dies.

I, a Laconian dog, can bite again: Yes, I can make the Daunian tiger flee, Much more a bragging, foul-mouth'd whelp like thee.

So, on the eastern summit, clad in gray, morn, like a horseman girt for travel, comes, and from his tower of mist night's watchman hurries down.

And care, whom not the gayest can outbrave, Pursues its feeble victim to the grave.

Christianity is not a mere set of opinions to be embraced by understanding. It is the work of the heart as well as the head.

When the day of misfortune comes and (comes it must sooner or later to all )we may be prepared with Christian fortitude to endure the shock.

Much in sorrow, oft in woe, Onward, Christians, onward go.

Where now is Britain? . Even as the savage sits upon the stone That marks were stood her capitols, and hears The bittern booming in the weeds, he shrinks From the dismaying solitude.

Who shall contend with time,--unvanquished time, the conqueror of conquerors and lord of desolation?

I have never in my whole life asked for an autograph. It seems a little ... unnecessary.

Any man with a microphone can tell you what he loves the most.

We learn to beat fear by doing.

You can't steal an artist's songs and also tell him he can't license that music to a commercial.

If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and everyone plays different.

I believe I am a better director than actor. I enjoy acting if the part is right. Directing comes very naturally to me. I enjoy it. I am very confident in my work.

I think the most important thing is to start with something that fits perfectly. Don't worry about having it in five colors.

A riff can take on the aspect of a chorus in a listener's psyche.

If you emphasize one part of the song, it trivializes the rest of the music.

Promotion and perception are synonymous twins of art marketing.

I think the media's the kind of thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.

If what you are doing is working, DON'T change just to be different. Just get better.

Like the eagle, we (artists) must be able to see clearly.

I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat.

The Bottom Line: If people don't LOVE our work, we will not be able to sell what we make.

In all my songs, I take on roles and play characters. It's a unique way to explore ideas and decisions I might not think or make in real life.

The price we sell things for is not important. What is important is we sell art that has to be replaced. You become good in art by doing art. The more you sell, the more you must produce.

It seemed like there was no control over it. I think certain things just popped. God was blessing us in telling us that certain things were going the way they were supposed to go.

I have three dads: my biological father, God and Bob Dylan.

The most exciting rock 'n' roll band of the last 50 years who are still on the road today

My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.

Art is only worth what people will pay for it. Artists do not get paid by the hour.

I have trouble listening to people tell me about their dreams.

It's funny because when you do become successful, you're forced to look backwards and try to crawl back into the womb where you first started to create.

I don't think about my mom when I'm onstage. I just don't really think about my kids when I'm working, and when we press stop and I walk outside, they're the first things I think about.

The day that music is taken for free by the majority is the day that the phrase "sell out" doesn't exist any more.

Punk is an attitude, not a genre, age group, or time period. What's interesting is trying to define the blues and punk in different ways. They are very close cousins.

It's hard to find other musicians that push you to go somewhere new all the time.

I have very little interest in the bottom line or signing artists to help make the label profit. That's a lucky, unique position to be in, but it all comes out in the wash.

The big picture is a nice way to think of things if you have the freedom to.

You can't be an actor in a small town-you have to go to New York or L.A.

You need a little resistance-something to fight against.

I would never be able to live in a huge city. I'd feel like one of 100,000 people doing the same thing.

I think that most people, and by people I mean journalists, think that I pre-conceive everything and that I spend my afternoons dreaming up self-mythologizing points of interest.

People have sort of a problem trying to see an end to a situation as being positive or romantic.

As an artist, you take things from your environment, and there's going to be a style coming out of your environment.

So, the advice that I would always give is make sure you've got your own career, before you put your child in the business.

The conventions of an almighty agency tapping you for greatness and signing you up and telling you this is going to be the next big thing; that has not been my career.

Writing is still on my slate.

Adversity in life does not rob your heart of beauty. It simply teaches it a new song to sing.

There is how we were before, and how we are now, and the time between is spent choosing which doors to open, and which to close.