Larry Norman
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The songs I wrote 40 year... RANDY NEWMAN TINY TIM The Lord seeks to establish status quo before His return. He is gathering His sheep, His birds, His ... HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN -SENIOR LEGAL CONSULTANT & AUTHOR There's certain songs that you're gonna record that you hope to touch people and change live... TYLER FARR Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU There's so much talk about the drug generation and songs about drugs. That's stupid. They ar... CASS ELLIOT Most of the people you see me working for me are actually with me. And I'm proud to say that I&#... MAXWELL A lot of times, when you're the leading lady, you get to sing heartwarming songs and that's ... LAURA BENANTI With sad music, or music that's perceived as sad, there's a sense of solidarity that can be ... J. TILLMAN AURORA WILLIAM TYNDALE And the thing about me is, I have a lot of mellow songs, because they're the easiest for me to w... PRISCILLA AHN JEAN RACINE Let me just tell you this, my aim in life is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ, that's all I ... BENNY HINN KELLY CLARKSON That's one of my problems is that there are so many songs to sing that I sort of get indecisive ... ALISON ELLIOTT I think a lot of people think that my parents' deaths is why I write such sad songs, but that... SHELBY LYNNE DARLENE LOVE Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears. LARAINE DAY There are seven songs finished and on par with any that are on Siren's. PETER HOOK I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwr... BRUCE COCKBURN WASHED OUT Whenever I sing 'Total Eclipse of the Heart,' the way people sing along with me still excite... BONNIE TYLER Once the subject matter of rock n' roll changed from cars and pop love songs to songs about real... DAVID CHASE Love songs are one of the great essences of life, the only thing that's lasting. GEORGE BENSON There's probably a couple someones that are gonna hear the songs and go, 'I think that might... CHRIS YOUNG JONATHAN KOZOL A lot of people can be cheerleaders for songs and go, 'Oh, that's great,' and they don&#... BRANTLEY GILBERT LUKE BRYAN 28. Feelings are neither right nor wrong. It's what you do with them that causes the problems. JAMES C. DOBSON A lot of times, I don't feel responsible for the songs myself. But that's my job or my place... DARON MALAKIAN It wasn't the tequila and oxy. You really are that fucking gorgeous. ADRIAN PHOENIX SCOTT DERRICKSON When people recommend to me a book for personal reasons, that's what makes it fun to read. It... NELL ZINK Sometimes it's said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I m... ROBERT JAY LIFTON I'm embracing new technology to record my songs, and it's a wonderful way to interact with p... DAVID COVERDALE He said that academia reminded him of a badly run circus. The faculty members were like underfed ani... SUSAN HUBBARD CAMILA CABELLO ADELE KENNY G Even if the songs are at times painful - 'cause some of the songs are not all roses and balloons... RACHEL PLATTEN When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an im... VALERIE JUNE When your hair is rising, that's when you know it's a good song - that's happened to me ... JOSE GONZALEZ I thank God for schools that are serious about the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are vital to perpetu... JAMES C. DOBSON ERIC TOPOL ZOOEY DESCHANEL My pump-up songs before I compete are not the usual. They're more girly songs. I love 'The C... KACY CATANZARO KATHLEEN HANNA PATRICK NESS Nightclubs are the equivalent of a Catholic Church in a poor country. You hear a lot of stuff about ... OSCAR HIJUELOS GARY ALLAN AMY WINEHOUSE I do gravitate towards the sad songs because I find them to be more of a challenge for me from a wri... LUKE COMBS STEVE JOBS I met Arcade Fire on their first record, 'Funeral.' I loved that record, and it was a record... SPIKE JONZE TOM WAITS C. JOYBELL C. CHRIS CORNELL TOM PETTY JAMILA WOODS GREG GRAFFIN JOE PERRY TRACY CHAPMAN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES COREY TAYLOR I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There's still a lot more about Christmas that can be c... CLINT BLACK I like 'Bewitched' off the first album because it's one of the happiest songs I've e... MALCOLM WILSON I love the art form of songwriting. I get to carry a lot of vibes to a lot of people. My songs are a... GLENN HUGHES EL DEBARGE RAVI ZACHARIAS PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. R. KELLY I basically taught myself how to sing and play by copying records, and that's just how it was fo... SUSANNA HOFFS KINA GRANNIS When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 son... MAC DEMARCO ALBERT CAMUS ALBERT CAMUS ALBERT CAMUS TORI AMOS ROHIT SHETTY A lot of my music is very roots-oriented, and that's country and soul. I've been in every ro... TAYLOR HICKS KEITH HARING
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Only in a concert situation do I have access to people directly to preach to them, and I don't b... LARRY NORMAN I want to encourage other people to try to discover who they are, not to try to fit into some superf... LARRY NORMAN Art is more engaging that propaganda. LARRY NORMAN I know I stand visibly onstage, but my function is still unseen, because I rarely see the immediate ... LARRY NORMAN Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were re... LARRY NORMAN Life is God's art. LARRY NORMAN I feel that Christian music is a subculture directed towards the Christians. It's not really bei... LARRY NORMAN I'm only here on Earth to serve God. I never had a career. I don't care about commercialism.... LARRY NORMAN We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body. LARRY NORMAN I'm fishing for men with a certain kind of bait, and the bait that I am offering is not a candy;... LARRY NORMAN Death Is Conquered Though We Slumber, Seven Is The Perfect Number. LARRY NORMAN Well people used to tease me and say, 'Oh, you're a Christian Bob Dylan'. And then when Dylan became... LARRY NORMAN WHEN YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHO YOU ARE, YOU NEVER HAVE TO HIDE. NORMAN I've always said it's interesting to watch devils cry when angels want to stab you in the ba... NORMAN REEDUS NORMAN COUSINS NORMAN COUSINS NORMAN COUSINS NORMAN COUSINS NORMAN COUSINS NORMAN COUSINS NORMAN COUSINS NORMAN COUSINS My views line up with Mick Mulvaney's views pretty much exactly. RALPH NORMAN My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do ... RALPH NORMAN Everybody's had their differences with President Trump. He's a polarizing president, but I t... RALPH NORMAN I firmly believe that with President Trump in the White House, we have such a great opportunity as c... RALPH NORMAN What Washington desperately needs now are citizen legislators that are dedicated to leading a free p... RALPH NORMAN Our message of a balanced budget amendment, term limits to end career politicians, and a real plan t... RALPH NORMAN My candidacy is one that fits the district and fits the Mick Mulvaney-Jim DeMint philosophy. RALPH NORMAN I am a businessman. RALPH NORMAN I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money. RALPH NORMAN Business creates jobs; government does not. Government creates a whole slew of jobs each time a new ... RALPH NORMAN I believe in the free enterprise system. RALPH NORMAN John Spratt did a great job of constituent service. When somebody had a problem, he would jump on it... RALPH NORMAN I don't think I can sell to our voters in our district that there's nothing to cut in the fe... RALPH NORMAN If you liked Mick Mulvaney's votes, you'll like my votes. RALPH NORMAN If someone wants to say 'I love you' in a straight play, they say it, and then it's the ... MARSHA NORMAN NORMAN THOMAS NORMAN THOMAS NORMAN THOMAS NORMAN THOMAS NORMAN THOMAS NORMAN COUSINS NORMAN COUSINS NORMAN FOSTER NORMAN THOMAS NORMAN MACLEAN NORMAN DOUGLAS NORMAN DOUGLAS NORMAN DOUGLAS NORMAN DOUGLAS NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF I thought 'The Well' was going to launch my career, but nothing happened. MAIDIE NORMAN When I was young, I was rather attractive, and I thought that I would be a leading lady. I always th... MAIDIE NORMAN I am a Republican because the United States is a republic, and the views we hold represent the found... MAIDIE NORMAN NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF The Depression was remarkable because you had nothing, and the salaries, when you got a job, were ve... NORMAN LLOYD All my boyhood, all I ever wanted was to be loved. NORMAN WISDOM With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and... NORMAN JEWISON GREG NORMAN NORMAN PARKINSON Modern Orthodoxy has a highly positive attitude toward the State of Israel. Our Ultra-Orthodox breth... NORMAN LAMM NORMAN COUSINS NORMAN COUSINS NORMAN COUSINS NORMAN DAVIES I went camping one time when I was twelve, to the Great Lakes. My friend stepped in really deep mudd... NORMAN REEDUS I've been camping and stuff, but if you left me in the woods I'd probably just curl up and c... NORMAN REEDUS NORMAN DAVIES I've been a huge Psychedelic Furs fan for a long time. I love Butler's paintings, too. I lik... NORMAN REEDUS NORMAN FINKELSTEIN When wheat is ripening properly, when the wind is blowing across the field, you can hear the beards ... 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I was made a sinner by deriving my being from Adam; I am made just by being washed in the blood of C... 
For me, when you are talking about perfect songs, you're talking about Gershwin, 'Someone To... 
What's so powerful about the Psalms are, as well as they're being gospel and songs of praise... 
I'm very lucky that people are able to say, 'Oh, that's that Moody Blues guy!' I'... 
The outpouring of Christ's blood is the source of the church's life. 
I don't just want to sing about simplistic things all the time. It's good to have a mix of s... 
Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope. 
I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks... 
No, it's not dissatisfaction that inspires me to tinker with my songs, it's just restlessnes... 
I like to have songs with me that have substance. That's missing from a lot of today's music... 
I don't think I'm turning back the clock by doing these old tunes. I love rock and roll and ... 
Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don't want my songs to make people sad. It's... 
And as the circumcised in the flesh, and not in the heart, have no part in God's good promises; ... 
A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sa... 
I'm the perfect amount of guarded. I don't reveal too much, and I never reveal who the songs... 
A lot of times, that's hard to capture: what you sound like in person versus what you sound like... 
For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even witho... 
An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation... 
I love nothing more than to perform my songs in front of a live audience. And whatever I'm doing... 
The role that blood plays in Christian iconography is huge - the washing of the blood, the shedding ... 
All of the songs my grandparents and parents listened to are called boleros - they're all love s... 
It's warts and all in my songs, and I think that's why people can relate to them. 
I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my in... 
It's infrequent that people are rail thin yet have high blood pressure. 
It's nice that there are movies and songs about romance - it's what motivates us as human be... 
It's now taken for granted that women are in bands and you can say feminist things in your songs... 
Anything that anybody wants to give me is great! I've had folk songs, heavy metal songs, jewelle... 
To me, country music's about life. It's about Monday through Friday. It's the blue-colla... 
All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or fa... 
Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn't that unbelievable? That's 58 songs... 
Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Ever... 
The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ... 
Once you sit in front of people and start playing songs, it's all on you. No matter what happens... 
Making a record? You've got to have the song, then you create a record. I think it's the sam... 
I think of music as creating a space. I like to put things in that are comforting to me and are nost... 
Most songwriters who have been lucky enough to have their song on the radio or be heard widely don&#... 
Over the years, when you're in a band with a catalog like Aerosmith's, you accumulate a lot ... 
Everyone is looking for connections between the songs. I don't usually approach a record as a co... 
I've always gravitated towards those ultimate lines in songs, the line you grab on to. That line... 
There's a little bit of gospel in everything I do. But I don't know if I will ever do a gosp... 
Many Christians have so busied themselves with programs and activities that they no longer know how ... 
Let's face it. Adventure and exploration are in my blood. 
I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a l... 
I get to travel around the world and meet all of these amazing people, and they're singing my so... 
No one can hope that men who have fought in silence for four years and are now fighting all day long... 
The people are under arms tonight because they hope for justice for tomorrow, Some go about saying t... 
A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do... 
When I write, I keep the family audience in mind. I ensure there's no vulgarity, as families are... 
Red is one of the strongest colors, it's blood, it has a power with the eye. That's why traf... 
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of i... 
A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing ... 
People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of the... 
I always get more applause than votes. 
Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara... 
I walk where I choose to walk. 
In Britain, the idea one could go from blue-collar beginnings to the university was so far out, it w... 
At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know w... 
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. 
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? 
The fun of fishing is catching 'em, not killing 'em. 
I do not want to be a pawn in a political campaign. 
What people don't understand is this is something that we only have in America. There is no othe... 
Obviously it's my second senior event, and I'm tired obviously coming back from the British ... 
I could never bear to be buried with people to whom I had not been introduced. 
Bulgaria was the only Axis country to deflect insistent German demands for the deportation of its Je... 
I voted for Nader, and I have no doubts at all that it was the right thing to do because the Nader c... 
Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must mak... 
Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own m... 
He got a corporation mind. He doesn't believe in nature; he puts his trust and distrust in man. 
There is a real danger of the United Kingdom breaking up. There is a loss of common identity. 
I happen to belong to that group opinion which holds the break-up of the United Kingdom to be immine... 
He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work. 
I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creati... 
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's... 
The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smal... 
I'm a very intense person. When I go after something, I want to go after it with everything I have. ... 
Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find... 
It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, ... 
Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with it ap... 
we make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. 
If sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured t... 
Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless... 
I can take a lot of pats on the back. I love it when I get admiring letters from people. And, of cou... 