Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer.

I've got a computer, but I won't go near it.

When rock came in, I wasn't bitter about it. I was puzzled.

I'll probably never put out another album because I'm a tough critic of my work, and I don't think I could come up to those standards any more.

You knew after eight bars that you were hearing something just absolutely new and unique.

I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing.

I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of economics. I got out of high school and had to go work, and they weren't hiring opera singers.

Songwriting is an art unto itself, not to be confused with performing.

I wasn't driven. I just really loved what I did.

Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer.

I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy.

Whatever fame came did so not because I sought it.

There was never anything like it before in history. It was a different kind of joyous, happy screaming.

The world is a pile of grunge.

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.

Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy.

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I.

The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before.

At the end of the day, you either want or you don't want to know about it. It's a mercy thing - you have to give back. However you do it, you have to give something back. You have to.

I think actors are at the mercy of the opportunities presented to them. So you kind of have to wait for them to choose you. My music is insular - I can choose that.

I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others.

As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

Pretty woman, I don't believe you, you're not the truth. No one could look as good as you, mercy.

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.

Pray God in the bowels of his mercy to send you his Holy Spirit; for he hath given you his great gift of utterance, if it pleased him also to open the eyes of your heart.

Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

O Lord have mercy on me, to God I commend my soul.

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.

I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me.

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.

Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.

Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of State government.

We need to break our dependency on foreign sources of oil, which leaves us at the mercy of foreign powers. To do that, we should increase domestic energy production.

I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.

Where I am now, you're very much at everybody else's mercy. You have no control over your career in a lot of ways. It's just important to know what your own goals are, because that's empowering.

Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and sheltering our brothers, we must indoctrinate.

I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy.

You're at the mercy of the editors' hands.

I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.

Mercy to animals means mercy to mankind.