Quotes About Nick Drake

#1. I grew up listening to Nick Drake. Without him, I would not write music - and 'Pink Moon' is my favourite LP.

Gabrielle Aplin

#2. My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal blues and jazz of Billie Holiday. Other influences for me include Bjork, Nick Drake, and Sufjan Stevens.

Yael Naim

#3. I listen to Radio 4 and put the iPod on shuffle. I like the randomness of, say, the Stones, then something from Nina Simone, Nick Drake or Bob Dylan.

Catherine McCormack

#4. I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff.

Anthony Doerr

#5. Fame is but a fruit tree- so very unsound. It can never flourish 'till its stock is in the ground.

Nick Drake

#6. Everything I've been through, everything I'm about to go through in my career and my life, if my family wasn't with me and didn't support me, it would be really tough.

Karl Malone

#7. And I am ashamed to write here that I felt more alive than ever, even though my heart was broken glass in my chest.

Nick Drake

#8. Please beware of them that stare
They'll only smile to see you while
Your time away
And once you've seen what they have been
To win the earth just won't seem worth
Your night or your day

Nick Drake

#9. The only reason no one ever did it with humans is because it seemed ethically dodgy, as well as completely unnecessary given the willingness of men to impregnate women every chance they got.

Neal Stephenson

#10. I think there's something extraordinarily nice about seeing the dawn up before one goes to bed, [] there's something uncanny about it.

Nick Drake

#11. Time has told me not to ask for more, someday our ocean will find its shore.

Nick Drake

#12. I woke early like a condemned man to the naivety of birdsong.

Nick Drake

#13. The simplicity of youth is mesmerizing to me. Maybe because I didn't know it long enough."
London Drake
"They All fall down

Nick Moccia

#14. It's too cowardly, and besides, I don't have the courage. [on why he hadn't killed himself yet]

Nick Drake

#15. Do you like what you're doing/would you do it some more/or will you stop once and wonder what you're doing it for?

Nick Drake

#16. Life is but a memory Happened long ago. Theatre full of sadness For a long forgotten show.

Nick Drake

#17. Cowards don't always hide. Sometimes, they're so gutless they need to stand out.

Steven Herrick

#18. Acting can be pretty challenging. I can't say making a romantic comedy is challenging, but to do anything well, you have to put yourself into it.

John Cusack

#19. This country has attained 'Swarajya', but unfortunately the dream of 'Surajya' is left unfulfilled. Today, if there is any major challenge before this country, it is that of a 'Surajya' and since the last decade, Gujarat is working in the direction of attaining Surajya.

Narendra Modi

#20. In matters where I have no cognizance
I hold my tongue.

Sophocles

#21. My dad sat me in front of the TV, and instead of putting on Nick Jr. or something, he put me in front of 'Jailhouse Rock' and all the Elvis movies.

Drake Bell

#22. Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, its unplanned, it's full of suprises.

Erma Bombeck

#23. And none of you stand so tall, a pink moon gonna get you all.

Marcus Sedgwick

#24. I'm an open Minded Man. How about a threesom? You, me and the machine?

Jennifer Crusie

#25. If songs were lines
In a conversation
The situation would be fine

Nick Drake

#26. So in Asia I want to make - I want to succeed to make a model of what success, practicing democracy, and market economy. Then that will give a good influence over Asian countries.

Kim Dae-jung

#27. And see she flies, and she is everywhere.

Nick Drake

#28. I never felt magic crazy as this
I never saw moons knew the meaning of the sea
I never held emotion in the palm of my hand
Or felt sweet breezes in the top of a tree
But now you're here
Brighten my northern sky.

Nick Drake

#29. You can say the sun is shinning if you really want to
I can see the moon and it seems so clear
You can take the road that takes you to the stars now
I can take the road that'll see me through

Nick Drake

#30. Nick Cannon or Will never did it this ill.

Drake

#31. I saw it written and I saw it say
Pink moon is on its way
And none of you stand so tall
Pink Moon gonna get you all

Nick Drake

#32. As we learn from our yesterday our today gets clearer. Breathe and go forward

J. Wilson

#33. So forget this cruel world
Where I belong
I'll just sit and wait
And sing my song.
And if one day you should see me in the crowd
Lend a hand and lift me
To your place in the cloud.

Nick Drake

#34. The purpose of collecting so much information can only be power.

Nick Drake

#35. You're a rare rare find A troubled cure For a troubled mind

Nick Drake

#36. If you would and you could brighten my northern sky.

Nick Drake

#37. I just need your star for a day.

Nick Drake

#38. I'll always have your back and you'll always have mine."

"Always? That's like forever. How do you know we will be friends forever?"

"I just do.

S.D. Hendrickson