I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I'd love to have a band, where I was obviously the singer, but where it wasn't me, it wasn't my name.

A type of revolutionary novelty may be extremely beautiful in itself; but, for the creatures of habit that we are, its very novelty tends to make it illegible, at any rate to begin with.

Aldous Huxley

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Frederick Smith

You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock star. That thought never entered any of our minds, the Van Halen family.

Eddie Van Halen

Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.

Scott Weiland

Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be.

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Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

Jim Rohn

Godliness consists in the knowledge love

Isaac Newton

A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.

Napoleon Bonaparte

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

David Antin

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Mark Twain

Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes.

David Chalmers

Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.

Amy Lowell