Evanescence Amy Quotes & Sayings

When you go through tragedy, you can either let that destroy you and you become bitter and never let it go, or you can let it make you stronger and let it make you grow. And that's what I did. My lyrics are coming from a place that I want people to relate to and feel that they're not alone. — Evanescence

I love singers like Hayley Williams from Paramore and Amy Lee from Evanescence. — Lindsey Stirling

And, on a wide view, I could see that it makes little difference whether one dies at the age of thirty or threescore and ten - since, in either case, other men and women will continue living, the world will go on as before. Also, whether I died now or forty years hence, this business of dying had to be got through, inevitably. Still, somehow this line of thought wasn't as consoling as it should have been; the idea of all those years of life in hand was a galling reminder! — Albert Camus

I have the general philosophy of creating the future you want to see. — Peter Diamandis

I don't know anywhere where the people are hungrier for education than South Sudan. — Emmanuel Jal

It's okay to laugh at me, I only look scary. — Evanescence

And frankly, when I made that record, hit songs were not what I was trying to achieve. — Duncan Sheik

Inspiration comes in the middle of the night when you should be doing homework. — Evanescence

It's dark, spooky, and I LOVE it! — Amy Lee

But what was my motivation was music, and the fact that I love to move around. I'm always moving around. — Suzanne Farrell

When Evanescence took time off, I bought a big concert harp and started taking lessons like I was in high school again, which was really, really fun. I felt like I was learning again. — Amy Lee

I think that our lyrics are definitely dark, but I know for a fact that we pull our inspiration from a million different influences. We listened to everything growing up. Our music isn't just 'opera metal' or 'gothic pop' it's just Evanescence. — Evanescence

Women think in [Douglas] Sirk's films. Something which has never struck me with other directors. None of them. Usually women are always reacting, doing what women are supposed to do, but in Sirk they think. It's something that has to be seen. It's great to see women think. It gives one hope. Honestly. — Rainer Werner Fassbinder

I'm in a new club, by the way. And I don't know if you're first timers like I am, but I'm in the 'I Just Dropped My Cell Phone In My Own Piss' Club. Have you done that? Yeah, good times. I'm on the phone and I forget that I'm using shoulder technique. Urinals were taken so I went in to use the regular john. And as I'm standing there, mid-conversation, I'm like 'Are you serious?' and it just started to toboggan right down my powerful chest. — Dane Cook

As much as I'm enjoying this verbal foreplay," he said abruptly, "what do you say we just skip to the part where you ride my dick? — Elle Kennedy

Evanescence fans aren't the popular kids in school. They aren't the cheerleaders. It's the art kids and the nerds and the kids who grow up to be the most interesting creative people. — Amy Lee

No one else has ever meant what you do to me. Please, just ... just, come back with me and stay. For good. — Kylie Scott

People told me I can't dress like a fairy. I say, I'm in a rock band and I cand do whatever the hell I want! — Evanescence

I am Evanescence. I am the only band member. I have basically hired the band. Evanescence has become me. It is mine and it's exactly how I want it to be. — Evanescence

Now is life very solid or very shifting? I am haunted by the two contradictions. This has gone on forever; goes down to the bottom of the world
this moment I stand on. Also it is transitory, flying, diaphanous. I shall pass like a cloud on the waves. Perhaps it may be that though we change, one flying after another, so quick, so quick, yet we are somehow successive and continuous we human beings, and show the light through. But what is the light? — Virginia Woolf

If people make fun fun of you, you must be doing something right — Evanescence

I've realized that Evanescence is who I am. — Amy Lee

He proposed an imitation game. There would be a man (A), a woman (B) and an interrogator (C) in a separate room, reading the written answers from the others, trying to work out which was the woman. B would be trying to hinder the process. Now, said Turing, imagine that A was replaced by a computer. Could the interrogator tell whether they were talking to a machine or not after five minutes of questioning? He gave snatches of written conversation to show how difficult the Turing Test would be: Q: Please write me a sonnet on the subject of the Forth Bridge. A: Count me out on this one. I never could write poetry. To imitate that a computer would need deep knowledge of social mores and the use of language. To pass the Turing Test the computer would have to do more than imitate. It would have to be a learning entity. — David Boyle

I like to use two basic elements for my clothing: rock ... you know, metal and chains and stuff - mixed with fairies and drama and Victorian clothing - fantasy. — Evanescence

Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it's about having a lot of options. — Chris Rock

My biggest dream from the beginning - besides Evanescence - is scoring film and writing music for film. — Amy Lee

I never pressure myself to do something I don't want to do. — Eric Ripert