Hayley Williams Quotes

One of my favorites is one called 'Rory's Radio' that I wrote about my brother Jeff's best friend growing up - his name was Rory Dunigan. I dedicated my first record to my brother, who got killed in a car accident in 1999, and I really didn't have any songs on the first album about him, nothing on a personal note.

Every year I do a song for my homeboy Valley, who passed away from a heart attack.

I am deeply saddened to hear the news of Dan's passing. He was a dear friend for many years. Dan & his music will live on in the great songs he shared with us all. My sincere condolences go out to Catherine and the entire Peek family. May he rest in peace.

The CD is dedicated to our dog Nell, who passed away last year.

Eulogy is nice, but one does not learn anything from it.

'Lauder' is a favorite because the name of the song is a friend of mine who passed away.

We knew that Father was loved in Orissa. But the ocean of emotion that greeted us on his death was an eye-opener.

A world without Tony Randall is a world that I cannot recognize.

I have my name Cory on my left arm, and I have my mom's name on my right with a cross. She passed away while I was still in high school, so I got that on my right arm.

Kennedy had been assassinated a month or so before. So we walked to the grave of John Kennedy and ended our walking symbolically at the Arlington National Cemetery.

I know a lot of people who are not here anymore, and I wonder why I'm still here... Not a day goes by that I don't think about Sam Cooke. His presence is so strong and so convincing to me, a true artist, a true talent, who never talked down to people.

The only question now is which corpse gets the most flowers?

Anything that is worth struggling for is worth singing for.

When John Coltrane passed, we were in the church for the memorial. Albert Ayler came walking in playing, real out there. He was actually mourning through his horn. Mourning, but it was also like a call to wake up. Wake up!

I do my best to make every word from my pen a cry from the heart for the souls of the dead.

I think it's very important to allow people into Ted Kennedy. Thousands of people lined the streets the day of his funeral.

There's going to be a picture of 'Mama' on my obit.

Dignified and respectful quietude speaks much louder than pomp and circumstance when it comes to remembering those who died.

We have not been able to tour since MCA, Adam Yauch, died.

Prince inspired me. He changed my life. I will miss him greatly.

When someone important to you, someone that's played a big role in your life, when they're gone... When you write about them or pay tribute to them, you want to do it in a way that's thoughtful.

Playing Michael Jackson's memorial service was one of the hardest things to do because it was literally a few days after he had passed, and Kenny Ortega, who was directing it all, was like 'You're gonna come out and sing.' So not only was I completely shaken up, I didn't know how I was gonna get through it.

We'll never do a show without honouring Steo in some shape or form, and that's really important to us.

We're a family with a pretty light sense of humor but, still, on the anniversary of my mom's passing we don't feel like getting 'colorful' and remembering her favorite foods. Every March 5th, the anniversary of her passing, we go to church and are sad for pretty much the rest of the day.

There is nothing triumphant or boastful in the way we mourn the dead and pay our veterans the respect they deserve.