Michael Masser Quotes

#1. I was used to being successful in school, but academics didn't make me happy.

Michael Masser

#2. I want to protect you while at the same time I want to shatter you," he murmured against my lips, "but only in the best way possible.

Samantha Young

#3. People simply learn to process information to the point where it doesn't serve true creativity.

Michael Masser

#4. I left an office at the top of the Pan Am Building, a nine-room apartment, and a farm in Vermont because I was aching inside. It took an analyst to tell me I could write a note of permission to become a musician and sign it.

Michael Masser

#5. I'm definitely a romantic, no doubt about it.

Michael Masser

#6. When you're writing a song, you have to know two things. You have to know who you are, and you have to think about other people.

Michael Masser

#7. When you write a song, you don't ask if it's good or not, or if it's gonna sell. When you write a song, you ask whether you've reached deep inside your heart and whether it's honest.

Michael Masser

#8. The truth is, I don't know what I want to "be." Oh, I have a list of life wants: happiness, security, excitement, and making enough money that I can travel whenever I want. But shouldn't I have an idea of how I'm going to live my life? Isn't that the way it's supposed to go?

Kristen Callihan

#9. I would spend months and months looking for a sound. I had to do that, or I wouldn't feel the extreme emotions I was feeling in my heart.

Michael Masser

#10. Somehow, people get very nervous about leaving the comfortable life of rules behind and never take the chance to develop their own internal voice, to listen to their own consciousness.

Michael Masser

#11. The thing I ran up against was everybody wanted a song so fast. It took me two years to finish 'Touch Me in the Morning.'

Michael Masser

#12. I had been the dutiful son and husband for so long, I had forgotten about living for myself.

Michael Masser

#13. I was working as a stockbroker in New York and had the seemingly perfect life.

Michael Masser

#14. Our children should be taught to beware of everything foreign and not to disclose any state or party secrets to foreigners ... for foreigners are eyes for their countries, and some of them are counterrevolutionary instruments [in the hands of imperialism].

Saddam Hussein

#15. When a medium like games or comic books whips up such a rapture of enthusiasm, naturally we look for lessons we should be learning.

Dave Morris

#16. I come from a background that stresses education more than anything.

Michael Masser

#17. True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

Pauline Phillips