Ed Reed Quotes

The only way to win happiness is to give it. The more we give, the more we have.

One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.

It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.

How could anyone survive even a single day, if he didn't feel as if he was, in some little great way, needed?

I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.

Some even claim that I'm a terror, a dictator and they're right.

Part of being young is making mistakes.

The baby sits in front of MTV watching violent fantasies, while Dad guzzles beer with his favorite sport only to find his heroes all coked up.

With girls, friendships are hard because you have to learn to get to a maturity level to love them but not want to be them.

I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.

They tied his arms behind his back to teach him how to swim, they put blood in his coffee and milk in his gin.

Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, of the possible.

I believe in myself, especially with how hard I've worked. I'm one of the top five players in the world. I feel like I've proven myself.

Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things.

I'm pretty good at letting people do what they are good at, that's why they're experts.

I might get drunk one day and fall in love or fall over a hooker outside, and I would have consummated a relationship that I couldn't necessarily believe in.

Then you get into it, especially if you start talking about football, fighting and Muhammad Ali. Then the ladies get very bored and start delivering ultimatums.

What our children need more than to learn to read and write and add and subtract is to know Jesus Christ.

Somebody's going to wake up and their job in life is going to be to make guitars. There are a lot of good, talented people.

I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.

Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.

I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord.

Southerners smile more than other Americans.

A wise, joyous bookit unfolds the knowledge and the beauty of the two lives it embraces-old wisdom and young discover, intertwining like vines.

The music is all. People should die for it. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music?

At the end of the day, that's our sole purpose and our sole reason for existing, is to love somebody else.

Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art.

When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how sharp the images should be. You should let the artist get going.

I shot a vein in my neck and coughed up a quaalude.

The heart says what only the heart knows.

Valium would have helped that bash.

I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag.

Multicultural is not a description of a category of American writing-it is a definition of all American writing.

I wouldn't like to see a chick of mine taking her clothes off and kissing a fellow on screen. And my girls must get very hurt when they see me doing it.

I can't think of a more natural experience in my entire life than playing with Mike Dean, Woody Weatherman again. I really learned how to play with them in terms of drumming.

I am very emotionally affected by sound. Sounds are the inexplicable... There is a sound you hear in your head, it's your nerves, or your blood running.

In the late '70s I started to search for the perfect sound - whatever that might be, before that I was mainly interested in drugs, insanity and the rock'n'roll lifestyle.

It's depressing when you're still around and your albums are out of print.

If we all tried to make other people's paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.

Anger is a better weapon than tears; a burr commands more respect than a sensitive plant.

Some people drink to unleash their libidos, and other people drink to prop up their egos.

Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music.

The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.

I'm really a pacifist.

A real love letter is absolutely ridiculous to everyone except the writer and the recipient.

Most of the time he [Marlon Brando] sounds like he has a mouth full of toilet paper.

Freedom of religion has been replaced by freedom from religion.

Music was what bothered me, what interested me.

I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket.

Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want.