Sara Teasdale Quotes

From my spirit's gray defeat, From my pulse's flagging beat, From my hopes that turned to sand Sifting through my close-clenched hand, From my own fault's slavery, If I can sing, I still am free. For with my singing I can make A refuge for my spirit's sake, A house of shining words, to be My fragile immortality.

Sing a song correctly and you live forever.

Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.

The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever.

I'll sing as long as people want to hear me, and I'll be able to sing as long as I'm alive.

Music has been my outlet, my gift to all of the lovers in this world. Through it - my music, I know I will live forever.

Immortality is a by-product of good work. Masterpieces are not for artists, they're for critics. Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together. My message to the world is 'Let's swing, sing, shout, make noise! Let's not mimic death before our time comes! Let's be wet and noisy!'

I am passionate about singing, and I strive to improve with every song and keep getting better.

I express myself better when I'm singing, so I always want to hold on to the music side.

I was really into theater, really into music a lot.

I wanted to sing about things that moved me and experiences I had collected throughout life.

Let me create great music, go in the studio, and possibly become a memory and a time stamp in people's lives - and just give the best performances, because I know that's all that really matters.

There are other artists out there, in which some like to write and others like to perform and others like to talk, but I really just love to perform and entertain.

I just love music - I was always singing and dancing.

If you're singing, you're telling a story. So to tell it and tell it right, that's it.

If we're going to go really deep, we're all trying to live forever. My music is my way of doing that.

From a very young age, my main thing was always entertaining.

Playing music and singing are my forms of meditation.

My Chemical Romance is done. But it can never die. It is alive in me, in the guys, and it is alive inside all of you. I always knew that, and I think you did too. Because it is not a band- it is an idea.

Creativity is a yearning for immortality

Michael Jackson will live forever through the thing that he put all of his life energy into: his music. I will do my part to keep the melody alive, to keep the energy forever changing form, but never ever dying!! Long live Michael Jackson.

Where are Shakespeare's imagination, Bacon's learning, Galileo's dream? Where is the sweet fancy of Sidney, the airy spirit of Fletcher, and Milton's thought severe? Methinks such things should not die and dissipate, when a hair can live for centuries, and a brick of Egypt will last three thousand years. I am content to believe that the mind of man survives, somehow or other, his clay.

There's a great adage that says we sing because what we have to express can't be spoken, just using words.

The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.

I'm going to do whatever it takes to be able to affect people the same way I've been affected by the music I love.