Colin Meloy Songs Quotes

#1. Self-pity dries up our sympathy for others.

Mason Cooley

#2. You can hate a person with your whole body, but love is a stubborn thing, it clings on in your heart.

Anna Maxted

#3. My brother was kidnapped by birds. My friend was captured by coyotes. And I nearly forgot: My bike is broken. Sounds like a country song. If country songs were really, really weird.

Colin Meloy

#4. It is best to start a new project with new people from the scratch.

Sunday Adelaja

#5. We certainly cannot have any further political connection with the Whigs of the South; they have rendered such connection impossible. An impassable gulf separates us, and must here-after separate us.

Benjamin F. Wade

#6. I really want women to know their power, to value their experience. To understand that nothing has been more wholesome in the political process than the increased involvement of women.

Nancy Pelosi

#7. A positive attitude and an open mind are true characteristics of all good fishermen

Kevin VanDam

#8. It was a nice relief to be able to work on individual songs.

Colin Meloy

#9. OUR
SOCIETY IS
CONTROLLED BY LAWYERS
AND FINANCIERS
"PROBLEM
MAKERS WE NEED TO EVOME
TO A SOCIETY LEAD BY
CREATORS, ENGINEERS, SCIENTISTS PROBLEM
SOLVERS. SURELY WE WILL
HAVE MORE INGENUITY
COOPERATION AND
PEACE

Miguel Reynolds Brandao

#10. When I first started writing these kind of songs that would eventually become Decemberists songs, I was writing them because I knew that nobody was listening at the time and that it wouldn't hurt to challenge myself and get weirder and see if I could alienate more people

Colin Meloy

#11. When the market goes to hell, it's more of an opportunity than a problem.

John Fredriksen

#12. The masses are the real heroes, while we ourselves are often childish and ignorant, and without this understanding, it is impossible to acquire even the most rudimentary knowledge.

Mao Zedong

#13. Another prayer to a God I didn't quite believe in.

Cat Clarke

#14. Before he goes to the boys' side and I go to the girls' side, I kiss him one more time and I feel like I'm flying.

Jenny Han

#15. Today more than ever before, its time to go through with life. Stop thinking so hard about what it is that you want to do. Go out and conquer your dreams! Only you can walk your path. Remember that inner voice and use it to drive yourself straight to your determined finish line!

Sereda Aleta Dailey