E. H. Chapin Quotes

No great truth bursts upon man without having its hemisphere of darkness and sorrow.

All my life's a circle; But I can't tell you why; Season's spinning round again; The years keep rollin' by.

You see, I have no real complaints of how you've left your past behind I guess what gets me worried is you've erased him from your mind.

You know I need a dream Like I need my breath We need to take the life Before we get the death You know I need your love Like I need the light Yes I need the chance Can it be tonight?

Flowers are red, and green leaves are green. There's no need to see flowers any other way than the way they always have been seen.

I never really drove a cab, but I do have a hack license in case of emergencies - like no money.

But high up on the mountain When the wind is hitting it If you're watching very closely The rock slips a little bit.

I spent a week there one afternoon.

If we say that no one's out there And we say we're goin' nowhere And we avoid the question Is this all that it means?

And if our future Lies on the final line Are we brave enough To see the signals and the signs?

Reality is only just a word.

I'm in the Dance Band on the Titanic Singing "Nearer my God to thee" and the icebergs on the starboard bow Won't you dance with me?

And the look on her face as she opened the door Was like an old joke told by a friend. It'd taken ten more years but she'd found her smile And I watched the corners start to bend.

She said I've heard you flying high on my radio I answered "It's not all it seems" That's when she laughed and she said, "It's better sometimes When we don't get to touch our dreams.

The reason nobody else in my business has any impact is because they're all comatose.

I take my chances. I can't cling to remorse or regret.

I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I want to try it again and again, and a lot of times my fellow musicians have to hold me back and say, "Nah, I think we got it."

I feel that it's nothing if not an incredible privilege to be able to get up on stage and play for people, and I don't ever take it for granted.

I was really young, but I can't say that I wrote much of anything. I liked to scribble; I thought of it as that. But I was playing guitar and ukulele when I was in second grade.

A dreamer born is a hero bred.

About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, moved overseas.

I found Elvis on the Internet, I went camping with a young cadet, he showed me his bayonet.

I don't really remember my folks singing to us, but they read to us.

The joy of being in the studio is having people being utterly free to throw out their ideas.

Everything changes in every genre, whether it's pop, rock or country.

I feel like politics have always informed what I do. If you know anything about my music, you know I've never been shy about stating how I vote.

Think I'll flip a coin, I'm a winner either way Mmmmmm, I feel lucky today

I think that every new record is a chance to... I think what it is for me is my heart and soul at that moment in time... I've always felt that just being able to make a record is a privilege.

In the late 80s, artists could be signed to labels and be nurtured. It wasn't, "We're going to give you one shot, and if you don't measure up, you're gone".

When I started out, it was this sense of, "Let's put out a record and see what happens and see where you go and see how you feel and where we can take it." That was a very different world back then.

I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job.

I don't remember a voice On a dark, lonesome road When I started this journey so long ago I was only just trying to outrun the noise There was never a question of having a choice

I've crossed lines of word and wire and both have cut me deep. I've been frozen out and I've been on fire, and the tears are mine to weep.

Fool you once, you are forgiven. Fool you twice, you're just a fool.

There's two lanes running down this road which ever side your on, accounts for where you want to go or what you're running from.

You've gotta know happy. You've gotta know sad. 'Cause you're gonna know lonely and you're gonna know sad

I certainly felt the desire to reach as many people as I could; I wanted to make the most of this opportunity, sure. But I wouldn't call it pressure the way we're thinking of it now.

So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake but more a sense that I've learned more.

The sound has grown and sweetened over the years as well, and you can hear it on many of my recordings and, most likely, will see and hear me playing it if you come to a live show.

My musical heroes are people like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie who wrote and sang real songs for real people; for everyone, old, young, and in between.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury.

Goodness is richer than greatness. It consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.

I can't loose you...you are the whole reason for everything in my life. Please don't do this!

Meeting him was fate, loving him was a choice, and spending the rest of my life with him… well that was destiny.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heartfelt truth. The true poet is very near the oracle.

At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.

At the bottom of a good deal of bravery ... lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.

A true man never frets about his place in the world but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature and swings there as easily as a star.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.