Wisdom Sayings

559 sayings found from 559 authors

I don't think about the past. I think about the present and the future.

— Bob Dylan 1978
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Before Elvis, there was nothing.

— John Lennon 1970s
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Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.

— Elvis Presley 1960s-1970s
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Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

— Hypatia c. 400 CE
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.

— Averroes (Ibn Rushd) c. 1180 CE
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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.

— Louis Armstrong 1959
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Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

— Miles Davis Unknown
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I wish I could make a sound that would make people's hair stand on end, you know, just like, 'Whoa!'

— Jimi Hendrix 1968
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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.'

— David Bowie 1976
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The only way to be free is to be yourself.

— Prince 1996
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I dress to kill, but tastefully.

— Freddie Mercury 1970s
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My father was a white man. I mean, I'm not ashamed of my father, but I am ashamed of the things that he did.

— Bob Marley 1970s
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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.

— Frank Sinatra 1957
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I demand to be taken seriously.

— Nina Simone 1970s
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I'm a little wacky. I'm a little fun. I'm a little kooky. I'm a little crazy. I'm a little bit of everything.

— Aretha Franklin 2003
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My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth, you don't have to be afraid of anything.

— Whitney Houston 2009
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I'm a perfectionist. I'm a workaholic. I'm a very driven person.

— Michael Jackson 2003
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I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.

— Madonna 1991
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I feel like a tragic hero. I'm a hero in a tragedy.

— Tupac Shakur 1996
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I'm not a player, I just crush a lot.

— Notorious B.I.G. 1994
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