320 Quotes About Autobiography

All I'd ever done was sing songs that were dead straight and expressed powerful new realities. I had very little in common with and knew even less about a generation that I was supposed to be the voice of.

فالمسافة بين الحلم و الواقع .. بين المستقبل و الحاضر .. بين المستحيل و الممكن هي مسافة بين الامل و العرق مهما كانت طولها و مهما كان عذابها.

I've already spent ten years of my life apologizing for that band. As their manager, that's all I really did. Apologize. For years afterward I'd walk into a hotel lobby and the receptionist would call to me, 'Mr. McGhee.' And I'd run up and drop to my knees and say, 'Oh, Jesus, I'm really sorry.'They'd look at me funny and say, 'No, nothing's wrong. You have a telephone call.'And I'd breathe a sigh of relief and thank the good Lord above that I wasn't managing Mötley Crüe anymore.~ Doc McGhee.

These then are some of my first memories. But of course as an account of my life they are misleading, because the things one does not remember are as important; perhaps they are more important.

If I was building any new kind of life to live, it really didn't seem that way. It's not as if I had turned in any old one to live it. If anything, I wanted to understand things and then be free of them. I needed to learn how to telescope things, ideas. Things were too big to see all at once, like all the books in the library -everything laying around on all the tables. You might be able to put it all into one paragraph or into one verse of a song if you could get it right.

Audrey Hepburn, as famous as she was, packed her own suitcases... I don’t know why that struck me, but it did. 'She has a servant’s heart,' I thought.

..And songs, to me, were more important than just light entertainment. They were my preceptor and guide into some altered consciousness of reality, some different republic, some liberated republic.

Let us make sure that future generation writes our biography.

When I got off the train back home, I saw the WHITE and COLORED signs that had been there all along, as it it was the first time.