104 Quotes by Graham Nash

There really is a kind of insane beauty around us all the time. It’s just a question of learning to slow down, take a deep breath and meet the moment.

Life is not perfect. It never will be. You just have to make the very best of it, and you have to open your heart to what the world can show you; and sometimes it’s terrifying, and sometimes it’s incredibly beautiful, and I’ll take both. Thanks.

Let me in, immigration man, can I cross the line and pray, I can stay another day? Won’t you let me in, immigration man? I won’t toe your line today, I can’t see it anyway.

You know, every year has been fantastic for me, I’m still here, I’m still alive and it’s been fantastic.

All the signs were right. And when I mean all the sings were right, the only signs that we care about when we start a project of making a record is, do we have the songs – it’s that simple.

I don’t have to ask anyone’s permission to do anything. It’s nice not have to get decisions out of three, sometimes four people, which can be like pulling teeth. So the amount of control that I have over what I’m doing is better for me as a solo artist.

I’m curious about life, period.

When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don’t teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy.

Teach your children well, so they don’t live in off-campus group houses and throw loud parties while I’m trying to sleep.