Edwin McCain Quotes

Smiling just to see the smile upon your face. These are the moments I thank God that I'm alive.

Edwin McCain

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• Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Dad

• The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Life
  • Work
  • Why

• With relationships, I've been through a lot of different situations with different people, and I write about it.

  

  Kat Dahlia
  • People
  • Different
  • Relationships

• This is Earth. Isn't it hot?

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Earth
  • Hot

• I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Time
  • Better

• I take pride in taking care of all the housework so that my wife, who works as a designer for Martha Stewart, won't need to sacrifice any of her leisure time when she gets home.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Time
  • Home
  • She

• For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • People
  • Death
  • Musicians

• I always thought that I was an important musician. If you don't have that confidence, why would you go on and do it?

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Important
  • Why
  • Always

• I'm not really part of any group or clique or gang because that's always been my nature.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Nature
  • Always
  • Group

• But they lived those extraordinary lives that can never be lived again. And in the living of them, they gave me a history that is more profound, more beautiful, more powerful, more passionate, and ultimately more useful, than the best damn history book I ever read.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Book
  • History
  • Beautiful

• Not too many people can afford for the wife to stay home and raise the kids.

  

  Eric Braeden
  • People
  • Home
  • Kids

• Indeed, the economy and the environment need not be seen in opposition.

  

  Jacob Rothschild
  • Environment

• I'm not pessimistic about Africa. The cities just seem big and hopeless. But there's still a great green heart where there's possibility. There's hope in the wilderness.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Hope

• Caring burns a lot of fuel - psychological and physical, too, if any lifting is involved. The energy tank is soon emptied, and the toll caring takes is well documented. It's called carer burn-out.

  

  Laurie Graham
  • Energy
  • Caring
  • Lifting

• I would like to look back on my body of work and be proud of each record in its own right, but as a whole, I want to continue to grow and move forward.

  

  Sara Bareilles
  • Work
  • Proud

• I think that my music is really empowering. I just want people to know - especially young people, but really everyone - that you don't have to be so caught up in what everyone else is thinking. You don't have to be the coolest, most popular person. You can just be you and be vulnerable.

  

  Alessia Cara
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• I like walking on the edge.

  

  Levon Helm
  • Walking

• I would rather start a family than finish one.

  

  Don Marquis
  • Family

• Big Foster is a guy who was in line to be the head of this clan that's been up in the mountains for 200 years, because his father was the leader or the Bren'in, his mother is now Bren'in, and they're kind of royalty, so he was in line to be next. He'd been promised it from a young age, but it just hasn't happened.

  

  David Morse
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Age

• Engvall pulls his car into a gas station after his tire goes flat.

  

  Bill Engvall
  • Car

• I had a series of childhood illnesses... scarlet fever.... pneumonia.... Polio. I walked with braces until I was at least nine years old. My life wasn't like the average person who grew up and decided to enter the world of sports.

  

  Wilma Rudolph
  • World
  • Sports
  • Childhood

• The last blue collar job I had, I was 29. Even 'Childish Prodigy,' I had a day job that whole time. Those early ones, they feel like psychedelic, blue collar records. Especially 'God Is Saying This to You,' there's such urgency in that album.

  

  Kurt Vile
  • Time
  • God
  • Job

• The acid test of our love for God is obedience to His Word. The greatest ability is dependability. The test of your character is what it takes to stop you. Trust God as if it all depends upon Him, and work as if it all depends upon you.

  

  Bob Jones, Sr.
  • God
  • Love
  • Character

• Smiling just to see the smile upon your face. These are the moments I thank God that I'm alive.

  

  Edwin McCain
  • God
  • Smiling
  • I Thank