Miking Upright Quotes & Sayings

I've always said about 50% of what happens at a concert has to do with the audience. If you play for a dead audience you're gonna stink. If we play for a great crowd we're much better. You want 'em to make noise. It's kinda like sex, if they don't make noise, you ain't doin' it right. — Billy Joel

Fear is the most elegant weapon, your hands are never messy — Jenny Holzer

The thing that hunts me now thrives on terror. My terror. I fear he will come for me. I fear he will come for anyone who knows me. — Christina Dodd

I love to close my eyes a moment and think of the land outside, white under the mingled snow and moonlight--the heaps of stones by the roadside white--snow in the furrows. Mon Dieu! How quiet and how patient! — Katherine Mansfield

Now I want you to remember something because I don't think we shall meet again very soon. It is this; however fashionable despair about the world and about people may be at present, and however powerful despair may become in the future, not everybody, or even most people, think and live fashionably; virtue and honour will not be banished from the world, however many popular moralists and panicky journalists say so. Sacrifice will not cease to be because psychiatrists have popularized the idea that there is often some concealed, self-serving element in it; theologians always knew that. Nor do I think love as a high condition of honour will be lost; it is a pattern in the spirit, and people long to make the pattern a reality in their own lives, whatever means they take to do so. In short, Davey, God is not dead. And I can assure you God is not mocked. — Robertson Davies

Too sick and freaked out not to want a bullet for every passer by, too sick and freaked out to breathe, too sick and freaked out to care, too sick and freaked out to think of anything but the annihilation of my mind and denial of my life. So sick and freaked out that I think everyone is my friend. — Henry Rollins

Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake. — John F. Kennedy

She wanted nothing to come between her and the rain and the sky. — Ahdaf Soueif

Mysterious power, whence hope ethereal springs!
Sweet heavenly relic of eternal things!
Inspiring oft deep thoughts of things divine:
The past, the present, and the future time.
Thy reminiscences transport the soul
To memory?s Paradise?its future goal. — Parley P. Pratt

The God of Quran is trying to unskin Muslims from their humanity. Muslims are good people. But their God is absolutely bad. — Mosab Hassan Yousef

Let whatsoever will or can befall me, I will surely cleave by my sweet Savior Christ Jesus, for in Him am I baptized; I can neither do nor know anything but only what He has taught me. — Martin Luther

I suppose things are better now, but ... I don't know. People still hate each other, they just know how to hide it better. — Steve Buscemi

She took a step and didn't want to take any more, but she did. — Markus Zusak

I believe in Scotland's place within the United Kingdom today as much as ever. — Ruth Davidson