Tablo Quotes

#1. Revolution begins with one step

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#2. Doesn't the world inside a black and white photograph seem more real? It's because the real world is losing its color

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#3. All the promises we made in the beginning, did we forget because we were busy? Or are we already too busy forgetting?

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#4. When the face in the mirror doesn't please you, turn it into a canvas.

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#5. I'm sorry that I'm both your umbrella and the rain.

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#6. What's the point of beauty if it's only seen by one?

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#7. The musician and the listener.
If this is love between two strangers watching each other from afar, that rough, burning moment when you rush in and kiss is the show.

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#8. Crying is easy, like breathing- the more you hold it in, the more you let out.

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#9. Any trend that is developed too fast and is disposed right away is not going to have a lasting impression on the culture, you know?

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#10. I disliked the unfamiliar happiness more than the familiar sadness

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#11. Your life, your soul, your world. They cannot kill it. Look at me, I've died but I opened my eyes again.

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#12. When I stop at a stop sign, I don't think about the distance I've crossed. I just wish I never had to stop.

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#13. One reason why love songs are better than love itself is that you can replay them.

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#14. What is nothing to you, can be love to me

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#15. Cowards, I believe, are people who are afraid to embrace what they want or need in a natural, honest way.

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#16. When you go independent, if you fail, you're totally responsible for it. If you succeed, you're totally responsible for it. You are responsibly for who you are ... and what you do and what you make.

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#17. I can't change the world, but I'm hoping that what I say and do will inspire everyone to try.

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#18. The way up is a staircase.
The way down is a cliff.

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#19. They say time flies, but you keep breaking it's wings.

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#20. I'd rather be just a Korean musician as opposed to, you know, a K-Pop musician.

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#21. Maybe the start line was supposed to be your finish line. Don't be afraid to walk backwards.

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#22. I walked around Soho's street for over an hour, running into familiar faces but never once stopping to chat. It was then that I felt something discomforting and comforting all at once. I didn't want to be here, in this city, anymore.

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#23. Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.

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#24. Though I may not flow where the wind guides me, I won't become still water.

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#25. He laughed. I suddenly wanted to laugh, to laugh with him, to sit here, or maybe outside in the rain, and just laugh with him. But I couldn't. I couldn't even smile.

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#26. What do you live for? Would you die for it?

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#27. I always make sure there's an opening in my room - an inch at the door, or maybe even at the window. My grandmother taught me that if one dies during sleep, the soul needs an exit, or it will be forever trapped in the room.

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#28. You lose yourself trying to hold on to someone who doesn't care about losing you

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#29. If it's a good song, it doesn't really matter if it's trendy or not. It will hit.

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#30. Telling someone who's crying not to cry
is the same as telling someone who's falling not to fall.

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#31. I don't want to be a person with full hands, resting from dreams, but a person full of dreams unable to rest his hands.

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#32. The word we have in Korea for K-Pop is 'Gaio.' And I guess it's a huge umbrella term. Basically it's like saying Coldplay and Kanye West, or Eminem and Celine Dion, are the same genre.

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#33. Some dogs act like people and some people act like dogs.

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#34. I guess the difference between the Korean hip-hop scene and the American hip-hop scene is that in the American hip-hop scene, you know, they have their Jay-Zs. They can become conglomerates through hip-hop. In Korea, it doesn't happen.

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#35. Some lessons are only delivered in the form of pain.

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#36. Live creatively. Create life. These are two ways to make a better world.

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#37. I'm afraid I'll be a book that no one reads. Music that no one listens to anymore. I'm afraid I'll be abandoned like a movie playing in an empty theater.

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#38. These are the pieces of my youth,
the small secrets and the not-so-great expectations
that defined my coming of age.

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#39. It didn't rain for you, maybe, but it always rains for me. The sky shatters and rains shards of glass.

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#40. There's a lot of American people who like K-Pop for some reason. I don't know why, you know? But they like it even if they can't understand it because it has that style, that appeal.

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#41. To be strong is to understand weakness. To be weak is to have fears. To have fears is to have something precious to you. To have something precious to you is to be strong.

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#42. One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.

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#43. Robbing someone of their smile and putting it on your own face doesn't make you happy.

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#44. Don't expect anything ordinary from me, i'm weird, and i like myself as i am

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#45. Happiness is very simple and minimal.

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#46. My heart was closed. Cold.
I was self-conscious and cynical.

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#47. The star shines for everyone in the world, but in reality, it itself is surrounded in darkness.

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#48. People believe those fairytales about falling in love at first sight at the bus, subway, or at the streets. But it doesn't make sense how they'd laugh at the ones who fell in love at first sight through TV screens. Loving a celebrity IS a type of love. Love is fair to everyone.

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#49. When my daughter wanted a toy and I had to check the price of it before buying it - that was one of the worst feelings.

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#50. Rather than someone that i can't take my eyes off, I want to find someone that I can't take my heart off

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