The Byrds Quotes

“And then she'll know the things I learnedThat really have no value in the end she will surely knowI wasn't born to follow”

“I'm like the moon," he started, "the hidden side of the moon. Not seen because it don't want to be seen. Everyone knows ther's is shadow there, but no one looks. It's like that with me, Byrd. I'm part illuminated, part in shadow-and that part that shines is all you ever wanted to see. But it kept getting smaller, and now it's dark. I'm a new moon now, Byrd. All there is, is shadow. Can you still see me? Do you still love me?”

“Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.”

“It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.”

“A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.”

“One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family.”

“Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.”

“Good books last longer than blog posts, which fade into cyberspace, hoping that a Google search will bring them to light again one day. And they shape a higher purpose in shaping a reader....Read books!”

“I am learning that man can live profoundly without masses of things.”

“Work hard, do your best, live the truth, trust yourself, have some fun...and you'll have no regrets.”