4,826 Quotes About Self

If a musician is making a mediocre, self-indulgent body of work, they have to know that, for the most part, people aren't going to be interested.

These new metal bands are going out, getting drunk and going to strip clubs, and they'll be doing the same in thirty years. There isn't even an interesting self-destructive quality to it . . . it's just dumb.

We are all mortals, and each is for himself.

Good governance needs self-discipline. Only discipline within can ensure discipline without.

I don't enjoy the work that I do. It's just that it's not self-sustaining anymore. The way that I like to make records - they're expensive records to make and just can't afford to do it anymore.

Trying to observe the slow shift from self-centeredness to empathy is like trying to watch grass grow.

Meekness, the subtraction of self, reduces the multiplication of words.

I am not a human being, i am a human becoming.

When I moved to London in the 1990s, it had changed a great deal. Racism had become deeply uncool. But there has been a return of racism in the guise of "antiterrorism." People who look like myself are immediately suspect. I've become extremely self-conscious about going into crowded public places.