c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.
— Quentin Tarantino
No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs.
— Charlie Hunnam
The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
— Keith Richards
Drums just always sounded like the most fun part of that good music for me.
— Levon Helm
My dad took me to all the best rock and punk shows when I was growing up and music has always been a part of my life. So I'm very interested in the music scene and I suppose that's why I've ended up going out with musicians. Dave Pirner is still one of my best friends.
— Winona Ryder
I think that is what film and art and music do they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings. 
— Bruce Springsteen
I'm one of those firm believers that good music will prevail.
— Pras Michel
I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on.
— Ben E. King
I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to.
— Joanna Newsom
Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach into myself and accept myself.
— Michael Bolton
For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life.
— Bjork
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
— Salman Rushdie
When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.
— Maria Callas
Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor we do not remember him in it. 
— Igor Stravinsky
Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.
— Yehudi Menuhin
Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart.
— Shinichi Suzuki
Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster system.
— Lars Ulrich
When we made that album with Gary Moore, I was still kind of searching for the right direction for myself. Although the music is quite good the direction was like a box of fireworks that caught light all at the same time.
— Greg Lake
Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark.
— Anthony Trollope
It's about giving the people what they want. So many people have told me that they've made love to my records so what I've delivered this time is an album about sex. Pretty much every song has that theme. Straight no chasers, it's booty music!
— Tyrese Gibson
I'd love to do my own music for sure. I'd love to have a band.
— Selena Gomez
Music is in my DNA!
— Rihanna
I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.
— Adele
I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.
— Amy Winehouse
Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.
— Kanye West
I feel like I was the only person who was capable of making this type of music in this type of way. I don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody.
— Mos Def
I just want to sing, I want to work on my music, I want to make my movies, that's all I want to do.
— Marc Anthony
That type of autograph, pictures and apparel thievery was not part of what I grew up with. I loved the artists and their music. I would be thrilled to meet them, but the thought of getting a scribble or stealing an article of clothing never occurred or appealed to me.
— Davey Havok
I am into nature and seeing whales. I went whale-watching, and I was really looking forward to that, but when you see it on TV and you see other programs do it, you're seeing close-ups of these massive creatures, and the music that's added gives you a certain feeling.
— Karl Pilkington
My first real foreign holiday was my honeymoon 20 years ago, and we went to Bali. It was particularly special for that reason, I enjoyed it very much - I had packed music scores and a practice drum pad, suspecting that I would be completely bored, but actually they remained in my case.
— Evelyn Glennie
I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.
— Maurice Sendak
You know, for most of its life bluegrass has had this stigma of being all straw hats and hay bales and not necessarily the most sophisticated form of music. Yet you can't help responding to its honesty. It's music that finds its way deep into your soul because it's strings vibrating against wood and nothing else.
— Alison Krauss
The fact that we elected Obama was a sign that the black struggle inherent in the blues and so much of the music I have loved can triumph.
— Jack White
I read a lot; fiction and non-fiction are the mediums I find most edifying and inspiring. I watch movies and listen to music and take lots and lots of walks. Nature is a nice reset button for me, it's how I get a lot of thinking done.
— Carrie Brownstein
My aim is just to make good music every single time.
— Lil Wayne
Music is my hustle.
— Pitbull
When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to express myself.
— Chris Daughtry
Our job as producers is to make the music sound as good as possible.
— David Guetta
Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.
— Norah Jones
I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.
— David Bowie
This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.
— Bruce Springsteen
Music should be your escape.
— Missy Elliott
I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.
— R. Kelly
I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.
— Kid Rock
We were raised in an Italian-American household, although we didn't speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being Italian, and had Italian music, ate Italian food.
— Francis Ford Coppola
What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.
— Gertrude Stein
To have someone to relate to and hopefully enjoy the music and get a positive message out of it, to make the best music that we possibly could, those were the goals.
— Janet Jackson
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
— Elvis Presley
I love all music. Right now I am loving Josh Grobin and Kelly Clarkson.
— Kaley Cuoco
It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been drawn to it. Ever since I was a kid, if I had an album I would play the ballads on repeat.
— Norah Jones
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
— W. H. Auden
If anyone can figure out how to balance my celebrity and my dual careers in music and film, it's me. I don't feel frightened; I feel challenged.
— Jennifer Lopez
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.
— Sarah McLachlan
I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
— Gary Oldman
Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.
— Mariah Carey
I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.
— James Taylor
The calm mind allows one to connect with the inner self, the Soul, the very source of our being. That's where the music lives. That's where my music comes from.
— Clarence Clemons
I'm not giving up my history and what I've done in my music because I love it and I'm very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people.
— LL Cool J
Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.
— Erykah Badu
One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there.
— Stephen Sondheim
It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.
— Eric Clapton
I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music.
— Joaquin Phoenix
I think all music is a gift from God.
— Pharrell Williams
I love making music, though. I love playing.
— Pharrell Williams
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
— Kin Hubbard
There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans.
— Helen Thomas
Please write music like Wagner, only louder.
— Samuel Goldwyn
This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it.
— Samuel Goldwyn
I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap.
— Sebastian Bach
I love hip hop music, I make hip hop music.
— Charlie Hunnam
Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No.
— Amy Grant
I'd rather let the music speak for itself.
— Serj Tankian
Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
— Robert Browning
The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.
— Pete Townshend
I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.
— Pete Townshend
You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.
— Van Morrison
I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it.
— Van Morrison
The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.
— Neil Young
My darlings, if I can't write dark, epic music, I can't live!
— Amy Lee
I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.
— Maynard James Keenan
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
— Ezra Pound
I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody.
— Lauryn Hill
I think it takes a lot of trickery to keep up with the media and its perception of you. I don't know if I have it in me most of the time to care. The music is made first, and the interviews or photos to keep it alive come later as a necessary evil, I suppose.
— Jack White
I have taken taking my music to labels for years, and everyone just thought it was creepy. They thought the images with the music were weird and verging on psychotic.
— Lana Del Rey
Songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter. But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message. If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit.
— Casey Kasem
I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.
— Nina Simone
I don't know why, it's the same reason why you like some music and you don't like others. There's something about it that you like. Ultimately I don't find it's in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it's fundamentally emotional.
— Jerry Garcia
I think the world is very much embracing this whole concept of musicians going out and playing their instruments and playing music for music as opposed to music that has something to do with some form of image or imagery.
— Les Claypool
We all love musical architecture there's no doubt about that. 
— Levon Helm
Music really is our daily medicine.
— Evelyn Glennie
Nobody will ever take Maurice's place, and he'll go on with us and he'll go on our music. He'll go on with us as the Bee Gees, and Maurice will always be with us.
— Robin Gibb
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
— Stendhal
The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.
— Heinrich Heine
The real art of conducting consists in transitions.
— Gustav Mahler
I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.
— Ace Frehley
I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.
— Jonathan Davis
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
I suppose, counting back, if the Beatles had been influenced by music in the same length of time ago - you'd have to put that into better English for me, thank you - they would have been like a banjo orchestra. They would have been doing show tunes.
— Jonny Greenwood
The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.
— Kenny G
I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
— Ben Harper
My health is wonderful. I work out. I'm working. Playing music. I have a beautiful wife, a nice home, a nice car, I got money in the bank. I got three beautiful dogs that love me. Like I said, I'm blessed. I survived.
— Steven Adler
Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it.
— Debbie Harry
I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests.
— Thom Yorke
It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today.
— Layne Staley
I didn't think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music.
— Gregg Allman
I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit.
— Duncan Sheik
Over the years, music put a weapon in my hand and words in my mouth, it backed me up and shielded me, it shook me and scared me and showed me the way; music opened me up to living and being and feeling.
— Carrie Brownstein
I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.
— Gyorgy Ligeti
I'm 19, I'm a girl, I'm very young, I like all sorts of different things, I like all sorts of different styles of music, I like all sorts of different styles of clothes, I like all sorts of different colors of hair.
— Joss Stone
Music is a great energizer. It's a language everybody knows.
— Bill Hicks
You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?
— Bryan Ferry
Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.
— Bryan Ferry
But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.
— Bryan Ferry
Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.
— Michael Stipe
I like the fact that music is more abstract.
— Bryan Ferry
I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined.
— Bob Geldof
Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.
— Ravi Shankar
My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.
— Yancy Butler
What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music.
— Roscoe Mitchell
I mix up all styles on my albums because that is what music is about now.
— David Guetta
I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.
— Jack Black
It is the element I miss in electronic music - no performance, no loving immersion. Maybe that is why I was never particularly drawn to electronic music.
— Lukas Foss
I'm always going to get more of a charge playing Chicago than I will Duluth or some place like that. Just because of the history and the people there are way more knowledgeable than a lot of other cities. It's an amazing music scene with some great bands and great musicians.
— Matt Cameron
The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.
— Nat King Cole
We learned pretty early on in this band that you can't have snobbery in music.
— Mike Shinoda
What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man.
— Ray Charles
Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.
— Ray Charles
Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.
— Gary Wright
I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception.
— Jimmy Carl Black
I'm not really interested in music. Music is just a means of creating a magical state.
— Robert Fripp
If an apprentice does not hear what a master hears, is then that quality not present in the music? Yes and no. In the world in which the apprentice lives no.
— Robert Fripp
This band is a real collaboration, and I'm greatful to anybody who can appreciate our music. It doesn't have to be a certain kind of fan or person or anything. I think there's a little bit of something for everybody on this record.
— Krist Novoselic
Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music.
— Bobby Vinton
The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.
— Franz Liszt
It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.
— Bruce Beresford
I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.
— Herb Alpert
I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.
— Gary Cherone
When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match.
— Bruce Beresford
I like when guests come over early and we chop veggies and talk and play music.
— John Stamos
My music is so often like a lullaby I write to myself to make sense of things I can't tie together, or things I've lost, or things I'll never have.
— Stephan Jenkins
I think the problem starts with the general appreciation of the music in the larger society.
— Sonny Rollins
I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.
— Michelle Branch
We live in a connected world now. Some find that frightening. If people are downloading our music, they're listening to it. The internet is like radio for us.
— Jeff Tweedy
Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music industry wants to save money, they should take a look at some of their six-figure executive expense accounts. All those lawsuits can't be cheap, either.
— Jeff Tweedy
Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.
— Edgar Winter
We are just fans of music, we are not fans of a specific kind of music. We just happen to be a rock band. Until we explain ourselves, sometimes people don't understand why we limit ourselves to just being a rock band. It's because that is what we like doing.
— Joe Elliott
I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know.
— George Thorogood
At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.
— Satyajit Ray
For over ten years or so game music has developed into a very large market.
— Nobuo Uematsu
Every music - except dance music, which is for dancing, I suppose - is for the spirit of the human being, and not for the body.
— Klaus Schulze
Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.
— Victoria Wood
The music is a personal expression, like art. It is something that you like doing that comes from within, and is an expression that comes from God. That is why artists are beautiful and why people who copy are not really artistic.
— Michael Schenker
When today's generation reads Jack's books or they listen to the music created by some of us, I believe that they see there is a different way of approaching today's life and today's sometimes seeming hopelessness that can provide answers.
— David Amram
There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife.
— Steven Curtis Chapman
I feel very blessed we can still have a career making music.
— Mike McCready
I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive.
— Marvin Hamlisch
There's only two kinds of music I don't like... Country and Western.
— Bobby Heenan
Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable.
— Billy Sheehan
Every now and then, a lot of bands doing the same kind of music will organically sprout up at once.
— Kathy Valentine
The market didn't define the music the music defined the market. 
— Charlie Hunter
When we were shooting in Shreveport, me and a couple of friends went down to Lafayette, because they had a big Zydeco music festival down there. We spent two days dancing to Zydeco music, eating fried alligator... It was one of the craziest festivals I've ever been to in my life, but I loved it.
— Alexander Skarsgard
Any good music must be an innovation.
— Les Baxter
I feel most comfortable keeping versatile when it comes to music genres.
— Thia Megia
Music continues to remind me that its boundaries are limitless.
— Haley Reinhart
There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.
— Mickey Hart
I thought the '60s was the most exciting time and the most vital music, and we were really together as one mind then. Then afterwards, the songs and the bad drugs, that took its toll.
— Mickey Hart
I love music so much I love what I do. I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.
— Diana Krall
Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to a real understanding of something in our nature which we can very rarely get at. It is a spiritual state of oneness.
— Terry Riley
I enjoy trying to inspire myself. I enjoy the artistic side of everything. Music, art, fashion, everything. I just like to be on the cutting edge of it. I'm into designing houses and interior design. I like change. I like creating things out of nothing.
— Chris Kirkpatrick
True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time.
— George Gershwin
It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.
— Tom Wopat
You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you're got music.
— Sid Vicious
When we separate music from life we get art.
— John Cage
There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.
— Aimee Mann
I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.
— Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
Drugs, sex, booze, all the stuff that we wanted to do. The problem was that we didn't want to learn the top 40 'cause most of the music was awful and we had this other idea about what we wanted to do.
— Wayne Kramer
I have tried to make the music a bit easier for them to understand.
— Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
I look at you and I write down what I hear.
— Virgil Thomson
You can have music and it will stand alone by itself, but you can't have a movie without it.
— Jerry Reed
All music is beautiful.
— Billy Strayhorn
I was bred and raised in a multi-cultural music background.
— Coco Lee
I would ditch school if my CD was scratched up or I couldn't get batteries. I wasn't trying to get on the bus and not be listening to music.
— Schoolboy Q
Sometimes I'll have sections that I'm not quite sure how they fit in the puzzle of a tune, they'll get moved around; what I think was originally a verse ends up becoming the chorus, or what's an intro gets dropped as a hook, things get shifted around a lot.
— Gotye
A good country song takes a page out of somebody's life and puts it to music.
— Conway Twitty
I think it is the weak and the young and the minorities that you need to look after to get a healthy creative environment - to get a lot of choices, a lot of different styles of music, a lot experimental stuff that everyone else feeds off.
— Peter Gabriel
Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so.
— Nadia Boulanger
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'
— Aaron Copland
If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
— Aaron Copland
Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.
— Charlie Byrd
You have the ability to write melodies and to put lyrics that mean something: to speak about life and what people are going through in their every day ups and downs, the good times and the bad times. Country music has always talked about life, I think; that's what I've always loved about it.
— Jimi Westbrook
Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.
— Howard Dietz
In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music.
— Chris Barber
If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock'n'roll' or they won't even let you in the hotel.
— Buddy Holly
I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players. Not to say that it is not important to listen to guitar players, but there's so much music out there and so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.
— Bill Frisell
There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.
— Earle Brown
If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good.
— Jerry Goldsmith
I never presumed that a technique of composition or an idea was so special that just using it would guarantee the quality of the music.
— Robert Morris
Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious.
— Charles Munch
Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.
— Jean Philippe Rameau
Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.
— Alban Berg
The British may not know much about music, but they certainly loves the noise it makes.
— Richard Baker
The Gershwin legacy is extraordinary because George Gershwin died in 1937, but his music is as fresh and vital today as when he originally created it.
— Michael Feinstein
Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.
— Ausonius
Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter.
— Satchel Paige
I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.
— Rose Kennedy
Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.
— Luis Bunuel
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
— George Sand
Our uniqueness makes us special, makes perception valuable - but it can also make us lonely. This loneliness is different from being 'alone': You can be lonely even surrounded by people. The feeling I'm talking about stems from the sense that we can never fully share the truth of who we are. I experienced this acutely at an early age.
— Amy Tan
Being confident is the key to life. Don't be afraid to be you! I'm super different from a lot of kids my age with style and personality, and I'm OK with it. And if you are OK with it, everyone else will be, too. Just be yourself.
— Leo Howard
In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
— George Orwell
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
— Mark Twain
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
— Francis Bacon
Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.
— Dylan Thomas
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
— Henry Ford
There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or disability.
— Sharron Angle
Youth has no age.
— Pablo Picasso
You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
— George Burns
To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
— Bernard Baruch
Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
— Pope John XXIII
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Marriage is not about age it's about finding the right person. 
— Sophia Bush
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age. 
— Victor Hugo
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
— Theodore Roosevelt
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
— Robert Frost
Old minds are like old horses you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. 
— John Adams
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
— Oscar Wilde
Cherish all your happy moments they make a fine cushion for old age. 
— Booth Tarkington
In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral & political evil in any country. It is useless to expatiate on its disadvantages.
— Robert E. Lee
We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.
— Li Ka-shing
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
— Kurt Vonnegut
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
— Francis Bacon
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
In age of consumerism and materialism, I traffic in blue sky and colored air.
— James Turrell
People gossip. People are insecure, so they talk about other people so that they won't be talked about. They point out flaws in other people to make them feel good about themselves. I think at any age or any social class, that's present.
— Blake Lively
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
— Karl Marx
No economy can succeed without a high-quality workforce, particularly in an age of globalization and technical change.
— Ben Bernanke
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
— Benjamin Disraeli
My love for ice cream emerged at an early age - and has never left!
— Ginger Rogers
I strive for perfection, but I'm not perfect. But what I can say is my morals are totally different than any other 24-year-old rapper my age now. I look at life totally different. A whole other aspect. I have different views and morals on life in general. And opinions.
— ASAP Rocky
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
— Thomas Moore
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
In youth we learn in age we understand. 
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it's so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them.
— Ariana Grande
'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
— Martha Graham
Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.
— David Mamet
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
— Ernest Hemingway
In an age where everything and everyone is linked through networks of glass and air, no one - no business, organization, government agency, country - is an island. We need to do right by all our stakeholders, and that's how you create value for shareholders. And one thing is for sure - no organization can succeed in a world that is failing.
— Don Tapscott
I'm glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out again now, maybe things would happen for me, but it certainly would not be on a variety show with 28 musicians, 12 dancers, two major guest stars, 50 costumes a week by Bob Mackie. The networks just wouldn't spend the money today.
— Carol Burnett
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
— Andrew Carnegie
Responsibility for learning belongs to the student, regardless of age.
— Robert Martin
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
— Victor Hugo
My mother is Turtle Mountain Chippewa, and she lived on her home reservation. My father taught there. He had just been discharged from the Air Force. He went to school on the GI Bill and got his teaching credentials. He is adventurous - he worked his way through Alaska at age seventeen and paid for his living expenses by winning at the poker table.
— Louise Erdrich
We live in an age where there is a firehose of information, and there is no hierarchy of what is important and what is not. Where the truth is often fashioned through a variety of digital means. Are you your avatar? Who are you in social media? What face do you turn toward the world? How much does it have in common with who you actually are?
— David Carr
Education is the best provision for old age.
— Aristotle
Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.
— Regina Brett
There is no longer a doubt that women are just as competent as men. Gender differences are guided by nurture, as society treats boys and girls differently from an early age.
— Naveen Jain
There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.
— Jon Bon Jovi
With age comes the understanding and appreciation of your most important asset, your health.
— Oprah Winfrey
If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
— George Burns
Adults are obsolete children.
— Dr. Seuss
I conclude, therefore, that this star is not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor... but that it is a star shining in the firmament itself one that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world.
— Tycho Brahe
The trick is growing up without growing old.
— Casey Stengel
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
— Maurice Chevalier
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
— Confucius
If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains! 
— Kevin Spacey
The finest lesson I've learned with age is that all I need is a small team of comrades who inspire me, try not to judge me, and remind me when I'm judging myself.
— Lake Bell
Lack of education, old age, bad health or discrimination - these are causes of poverty, and the way to attack it is to go to the root.
— Robert Kennedy
I'm very mature for my age, but I'm also innocent in a lot of ways.
— Kirsten Dunst
Like a lot of kids, I had a Superman cake or different theme cakes, but then I hit the age where I think my mom thought I was ready for the German chocolate cake that she makes for my dad. Just the sight of that, the taste of that frosting, just reminds me of being at home with my mom and my dad and my sister and my friends.
— Willie Geist
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
— Brooks Atkinson
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
— Muhammad Ali
People say women shouldn't have long hair over a certain age, but I've never done what everyone says.
— Jane Seymour
You can wear black at any time. You can wear it at any age. You may wear it for almost any occasion a 'little black frock' is essential to a woman's wardrobe. 
— Christian Dior
I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.
— James Broughton
When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.
— Billy Graham
It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.
— Pope Francis
Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
— Euripides
At the age of 18, I made up my mind to never have another bad day in my life. I dove into a endless sea of gratitude from which I've never emerged.
— Patch Adams
Looking back, I realise I had to grow up and be responsible at a very tender age.
— Andie MacDowell
Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
— C. S. Lewis
At my age flowers scare me.
— George Burns
My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they're going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.
— Amy Winehouse
It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption. 
— Charles de Montesquieu
We all grow up. Hopefully, we get wiser. Age brings wisdom, and fatherhood changes one's life completely.
— Frank Abagnale
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
— Simon the Zealot
In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.
— Timothy Leary
Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.
— Friedrich Schiller
As time goes by and you're getting older and stuff like that - getting older sucks. You know, I hear all this crap about, 'Oh, you can age with dignity.' Really?
— Mickey Rourke
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
— Tony Robbins
Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant to be noticed.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.
— Gary L. Francione
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
— W. Somerset Maugham
If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is, if you're with your soulmate.
— Cate Blanchett
Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age.
— Andy Grove
Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.
— Laura Marling
My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all.
— Abraham Lincoln
There's something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and a sense of social and civic responsibility that we contributed to so much of the world. We lost that mission in the 1980s and 1990s, when we entered a gilded age, and the culture of individualism became a culture of avarice.
— George Hickenlooper
A woman has the age she deserves.
— Coco Chanel
When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.
— Erik Erikson
Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact - men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.
— Billy Graham
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
— George Burns
Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.
— Russell M. Nelson
It is surprising to notice that even from the earliest age, man finds the greatest satisfaction in feeling independent. The exalting feeling of being sufficient to oneself comes as a revelation.
— Maria Montessori
I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early.
— Thom Gunn
By the proper intakes of vitamins and other nutrients and by following a few other healthful practices from youth or middle age on, you can, I believe, extend your life and years of well-being by twenty-five or even thirty-five years.
— Linus Pauling
I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.
— Oprah Winfrey
Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
— Bill Bryson
Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile.
— Ariel Dorfman
To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.
— Alan Bleasdale
Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
I had just been promoted to the first rugby team. It was a perfect, wonderful coming of age. My brother was already in the team, and my father had come to watch us. We went home, and my father died in front of me. Horribly, in about half an hour. He had a heart attack.
— Anthony Browne
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
— Leon Trotsky
Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
— Dwight L. Moody
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
— Lucille Ball
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
— James Joyce
I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.
— Cherie Lunghi
New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.
— Jackson Pollock
I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.
— Carl Sandburg
Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.
— Johnny Ball
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.
— Victoria Abril
Living life at a young age is like being a sponge thrust into the ocean. You absorb what's around you. If you're around people who are supportive and positive, that's how you look at the world.
— Freddie Prinze, Jr.