Al R. Young Quotes

Our birth is nothing but our death begun; As tapers waste, that instant they take fire.

If I have my way, I'm going to dissolve the Forest Service. They're in the business of harvesting trees and they're not harvesting trees, so why have them anymore ?

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.

More and more I find I'm really impressed with how much my son knows and how much he thinks like me. But he never would agree with me and he never would listen to me on anything.

We're gonna release a studio album probably a year from now and we've got these recordings that we did with Coco Taylor and Johnny Johnson, who was Chuck Berry's piano player.

I don't quite have the energy for extra curricular activities. I have to pace myself a little bit more.

We bleed, we tremble; we forget, we smile - The mind turns fool, before the cheek is dry

I don't know, I think the crowds are even more responsive now because the audiences are skewing younger.

I'll never be Bob Dylan. He's the master.

I expect that in 40 years' time I'll be writing political tomes and working for an organisation like Oxfam.

Which one is the most important between trust, hope and love? Loyalty.

All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects.

A man who did not have but one wife in the Resurrection that woman will not be his but be taken from him & given to another.

This rap game is just WWF; everybody wants points off somebody else.

I miss being fawned over by restaurateurs and chefs.

Rock and roll is here to stay.

The moment I saw her again, I knew that it's gonna be more fun to live my life now.

You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.

Misfortunes never come singly.

In my dreams, I could be a Princess, and that's what I was. Like most little girls, I believed nothing less than a Prince could make my dreams come true.

The past is for learning from and letting go. You can't revisit it. It vanishes.

I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

Just because we have birds inside us, we don't have to be cages.

He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place.

To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.

I'm a motivational speaker.

A mystery of the universe is how it has managed to survive with so much volunteer help.

This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.

I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration.

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.

I feel it is a blessing, a duty, an honor, that we give the love that we have, and we share the lives that we have with our fullest heart.

And for REO - they get to play for some Styx fans and then we get to play in front of some REO fans. It helps spread the new music to the following of other bands.

People like to let loose at rock concerts and it gives them an excuse to do it in a way that is not destructive to others and not really destructive to the band.

So, it's a matter of that I want to take our music around the globe.

There's nothing pretty about ice. Ice grows nothing. But we've got this in our minds that we've got to make everything cold.

There's an edge to real rock 'n' roll. It's all that matters.

Seeing our VH-1 Behind the Music shows just how dysfunctional some of the moments of the band were but this new line-up has put the fun back in dysfunction.

So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music.

Ten years ago, in 94, we thought maybe nobody would ever care about Styx again.

The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.

Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly.

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside.

Healing is as incremental and mysterious as the damage ... what took time, takes time.

Every wave is new until it breaks.

Nothing is perfect in God's perfect plan.

I do my stuff, my "mixtapes," as you say. We just need time to capture. After that, I do not know what he thinks, but for me, it is time to get things together.

In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.