Top 55 Meredith Brooks Quotes

#1. I'm a humanist. I'm an observer. I have a very scientific mind. I believe metaphysics and science absolutely blended are more the truth for me. It doesn't work just believing in what somebody says.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #10115
#2. I think we're heading into the Creative Age. We've passed through the Agricultural and then the Industrial and then the Information Age.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #25888
#3. If a person ever came to me as a fan and tried to go out on a date, I wouldn't. I've had enough kind of crazy experiences in that department.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #70510
#4. The Eagles, let's face it, they were a pretty cool group, Fleetwood Mac, Blondie. I had this really eclectic background in music.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #96304
#5. I believe you can remember the future as much as the past.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #96555
#6. I think if you're doing alcohol and drugs, the chances of you surviving this kind of a pace are next to nothing. I live an extremely healthy life.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #105002
#7. I had a very sexual experience onstage once. But I won't go there.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #149070
#8. I grabbed my drummer's cymbal in my teeth just as he crashed down on it with his sticks-I blacked out. I was a punk in those days. It was in Seattle. I still have all my teeth too, it's amazing.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #154440
#9. I don't think science is totally true, because I've seen miracles happen through prayer.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #160388
#10. Every emotion that I had over the last three years pretty much had to be put on hold.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #165560
#11. A long term goal is to encourage students to start doing concerts in which I or the other artists will come back at the end of the school year to see their concerts.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #200683
#12. Psychology Today is probably one of my favorite magazines, Guitar, Guitar World. People.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #330478
#13. My favorite color is purple. I have a huge velvet purple comforter on my bed.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #383874
#14. I love Chrissie Hynde and Mick Jagger. Someone at Capitol pointed out how much my inflections are similar to Jagger's.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #486346
#15. If we didn't live in a society that told us we're not OK if we're not making 100 grand a year, I think we'd all be a lot happier.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #553065
#16. Mackie is an electronics recording company backing me, and they're willing to invest giving equipment to schools that I choose, and they've already started doing that.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #592441
#17. Everything I'm doing now is something I did before, only it's bigger now.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #598210
#18. I have a lot of survivor insticts, and I know when to quit. I know when to go forward it my life, but not everybody does.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #599102
#19. I've also been writing for other artists, producing other artists, doing some country stuff. Those lyrics I tend to leave more universal.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #681063
#20. Twenty years from now, I hope I'm consistently in my life, in the zone. I have seen the next year before.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #765245
#21. My worst vice is also my best vice. It's my empathy and my love for people-it can wear me out. I rarely can turn a person in need down or because I love people, I love energy.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #802381
#22. When I was a kid in Eugene, Oregon, there was this fantastic guitar player who went out on the tables, chairs, out in the audience and played. So I started taking my guitar in the audience. I tripped, fell backwards and ripped my pants.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #852478
#23. I classify myself as a student and a teacher. This year, I'm back into the student. I try to stay balanced. I learn so much every time I walk about my door.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #916855
#24. I don't mean that to be egotistical, but I'm not writing fluff. I'm not writing for 8-year-olds. I'm a woman and I'm a rock girl.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #970760
#25. The Graces was a great experience; it's great working with women, but we weren't put together in an organic way, and I think that's why we didn't stay together. There wasn't that natural friendship.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #1000280
#26. I obsess too much.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #1062917
#27. I can write songs without a guitar.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #1080599
#28. I like my lyrics to feel conversational and truthful, as if we're having real talk. I don't really like generic lyrics.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #1082836
#29. I have so many plans! Sometimes it's hard to keep up because at this point it's just been me and the little bit of help my label gives me.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #1083990
#30. I had my dysfunctions, but music gave me peace and joy. I never felt in tune with the world. My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me. My art was my autonomy.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #1118003
#31. I've started a project called Planet Art. The purpose will be to remind people where I really believe we came from, which was a creative planet, and that everybody can be autonomous through their art.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #1175399
#32. It's just that only now are women coming around, and when someone as striking as Alanis or Sheryl Crow comes out, the public just needs something to compare it to.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #1248388
#33. My mentoring program is pretty specific, it's about self-empowerment, about being able to find solutions through teamwork. That's one of my first goals.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #1258649
#34. I would hope that wherever Sheryl Crow, Paula Cole, and Fiona get played is where I'd be played. And right now that seems to be the modern Adult Contemporary market.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #1308013
#35. Stop thinking you have to go to big industry to have a big life, because it's not the truth.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #1315211
#36. I was looking at the setlist backstage and I just said, 'Oh my God, the first six songs nobody's gonna know.' But they all knew the lyrics. It just blew me away.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #1320206
#37. There are very few interviews I turn down, because I really dig talking to people and hanging out.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #1413877
#38. My favorite movie is The Wizard of Oz. I love the fairy tale of it. And Gone With the Wind was always one of my favorites because it's so dramatic and stunning.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #1428737
#39. Find your authentic voice, become vulnerable, and then put yourself out there.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #1436745
#40. I want to embrace all of this: touring, going to Europe, Canada, Australia. I want to travel the world, just have a great hang, and hopefully, be a messenger.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #1442400
#41. I first met Hanson over in Japan and they gave me some great advice about the fans and they seem real down to earth. They're great.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #1458130
#42. I think people are basically unhappy working their jobs, and we all need to have that thing that gets our juices flowing.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #1489579
#43. I was either going onstage or going into an interview or getting on a plane. You can't really feel everything fully when you don't have the time to process.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #1534591
#44. I want to break the old paradigm of thinking that if you're successful, you have to crash and burn-that all of this won't be there tomorrow.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #1547026
#45. My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #1565649
#46. I quickly learned to take anger and use it to motivate me. My sister ran away from home, and she was my world. And that was that. The guitar became my world.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #1576463
#47. The most spiritual place you can be in your life is when you're being very real, when you're not allowing everybody and everything to influence your decisions and your moods, and what's morally right or ethically right.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #1642724
#48. When I lived in Seattle and Oregon, we partied, which is a large reason I don't know drugs or alcohol now because I saw the Destruction of so many great musicians and artists.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #1672610
#49. Everything I read about me is what I say. The way I've come across is exactly who I am. So far, they haven't skewed it to be one way or another too much.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #1735750
#50. Growing up in the Northwest, I did play in an all-girl band. I snuck into clubs. No one ever questioned or thought twice about it.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #1745778
#51. You don't realize 'till you get here what a moment in history you're a part of.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #1766870
#52. I've come up against a few challenges. I've just taken them on with a really pure energy. I'm not out to change people's minds. I'm out to maybe educate and inspire.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #1807837
#53. My eyes change colors, which is why you guys have never been able to figure it out.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #1807962
#54. Whatever it is that you love to do, be it collect comic books or play the guitar, that you can make a living at it, do it.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #1839285
#55. I know my ambitions are big, but you've got to have something after rock and roll.

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks Quotes #1854149

Famous Authors

Popular Topics

Scroll to Top