Strange & Unusual Sayings

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is toiling in this art that God has given me to increase my life.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

I will seize Fate by the throat; it shall certainly not bend me completely to its will.

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

I was obliged to be industrious; whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.

I started out writing songs for myself. I didn't care if anyone else liked them or not. I still don't.

Before Elvis, there was nothing.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hatred, and hatred leads to violence. This is the equation.

Seems to me that the only thing that matters is that we like it, and we do. We like to blow, and we like to swing. And we like to make people happy.

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Music is a spiritual thing, you know. You don’t play with music. If you play with music, you’re just going to get yourself all messed up.

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. I felt very puny as a human. I thought, 'Fuck that. I want to be a superhuman.'

I don't mind not being famous. I'm not a big fan of fame. I'm a big fan of music, and I'm a big fan of art. I'm a big fan of creativity.

I dress to kill, but tastefully.

I don't believe in death. I don't believe in dying. I don't believe in nothing that goes on that way.

Rock 'n' roll is sung by cretinous goons. It's the most brutal, ugly, degenerate, vicious form of expression it has been my displeasure to hear.