Singer Songwriter Quotes

“You’ll never truly know how strong your spiritual practice is until you’re faced with your own mortality. Until you’re faced with an incurable disease, and you realize that the greater battle is not one of body, but the one in your mind.”
― Bill Madden

“Life is 99 percent attitude. Yet for the majority of people, it is the remaining one percent that dominates 99 percent of their life.”
― Bill Madden

“There really is no happy place; it's all about your mindset. However, if I was to choose a place which contributes to my well-being, it would be the recording studio – no contest. There is something magical about people coming together to share ideas, pieces of themselves, and where the song can take you. Within those walls, music is unpredictable... a wildcard... like dreaming in sound.”
― Miranda Easten

“A STORY TO SING IS WHEN THE WORDS START TO FLY.”
― Intensia, Words to Think. Or to Sing.

“I DON'T HAVE A MUSIC TASTE.
I HAVE A MUSIC SENSE.”
― Intensia, Words to Think. Or to Sing.

“If everything happens for a reason, then I’m willing to be unreasonable.”
― Bill Madden

“Independent thinkers have always been a threat to those whose courage lies in the masses.”
― Bill Madden

“If I am less kind than I was yesterday, then I am failing as a human being.”
― Bill Madden

“Ironically, the resilience and greatness of America may never be accentuated more than by its ability to withstand the unprecedented corruption of Donald Trump.”
― Bill Madden

“There are people with superior intellect, but lack wisdom, and people who are not intellectually gifted, but extremely wise, then there are those inverted unicorns who lack both. Trump is that such animal, and as president, he’s exposed himself as the poster boy for the Peter Principle.”
― Bill Madden

“Every women’s civil rights struggle around the world, in a democratic or totalitarian country, whether Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, or Jew – is a struggle of all of ours.”
― Bill Madden

“Stoicism is Buddhism without the dogma.”
― Bill Madden

“You’re like a flower that’s ready to bloom, but never truly trusts the sun.”
― Bill Madden

“The most common act of violence is the relentless mental violence we perpetrate upon ourselves with nothing other than our thoughts.”
― Bill Madden

“As a child, the adults were my heroes. But as an adult with cancer, it’s the children who are my heroes.”
― Bill Madden

“Near, far, wherever you are... make sure you’re practicing social distancing!”
― CélineDion

“Music can conjure up many contrasting emotions. It can take you from heartbreak and darkness to implicit happiness in the effortless change of a beat.”
― Miranda Easten

“Ethics and Songwriting (The Sonnet)

I wish I could write music,
For one song is worth ten sonnets.
One sonnet is worth ten essays,
One essay is worth ten speeches.
That's why I have respect for those,
Singers who do their own writing.
While I pity the empty entertainers,
Who do nothing but counterfeiting.
It's okay if you sing someone's song,
At least make way for equal recognition.
Exploiting talent 'cause they're struggling,
Is fundamentally a human rights violation.
Every industry lacks ethics in its story of origin.
It's time we right the wrongs and get humanizing.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“Poetry is my pharmaceutical.”
― Janna Cachola

“An artist bears no gender.”
― Don Santo

“I'll sing without singing lessons because it brings me happiness. We should pursue joy, not just perfection. I share my love for singing with the world, even without professional training. Like climbing mountains, it doesn't matter if I reach the top with or without lessons - the view is just as beautiful from where I stand.”
― Yvonne Padmos

“This is one of the songs we've put together for it," Wyman said. "It's called 'The Cheesemonger's Blues.' I wrote the lyrics myself. It's a rap." He closed his eyes, rocked his body to the beat, and then launched into a rhythm-adjacent recitation of several dozen varieties of cheese.”
― John Scalzi, When the Moon Hits Your Eye

“There is no longer a question of who Trump is. We're horrified not just every day, but nearly hourly. The question now is who we are as a people.”
― Bill Madden

“What the Trump presidency has exposed is — the ideological divide is not so much between conservatives and liberals, but rather those who are willing to allow America to be hijacked by authoritarianism, and those who still believe in constitutional democracy and the rule of law.”
― Bill Madden

“It’s long past overdue for the free press to stop ignoring the elephant in the room: What is increasingly obvious and is being discussed in bars, cafes, and universities around the world — in Trump, the United States of America has an unabashed fascist as president.”
― Bill Madden

“A Trump rally is where feeble-minded people congregate to escape their conscience.”
― Bill Madden

“Remember, a smile is more contagious than the coronavirus.”
― Bill Madden

“To change the game, hire a game-changer. Hire the one who moves the needle. Skip that, and it's two steps forward, two steps back — forever.”
― Bill Madden

“Even the ill-gotten billions reaped over decades from extortion, assassinations, and rackets by New York City’s Five Mafia Families pale in comparison to the trillions in economic devastation — from ballooning national debt to household-crushing tariffs — and the deliberate erosion of laws, the Constitution, and democratic institutions inflicted on America by Trump across his terms. This isn’t a U.S. presidency; it’s a mob boss running a criminal enterprise out of the White House.”
― Bill Madden

“Don’t let fear and pessimism prevent you from meeting amazing people. There are so many wise, intelligent, artistic, and compassionate people, who without the internet, you’d never have the opportunity to connect with. Don’t fear friendship. Be brave. Life is short and precious.”
― Bill Madden