Yoshiki quotes

If you really believe and really make a commitment, anything can happen.
-- Yoshiki

#Believe #Commitment #Anything Can Happen

The past can be changed by the future.
-- Yoshiki

#Past #Changed

A lot of things inspire me - especially pain.
-- Yoshiki

#Pain #Inspire

Rock saved me. You can break drums and scream out loud - if you do that in the street you get arrested.
-- Yoshiki

#Rocks #Scream #Break

If I die, I'm going to die onstage.
-- Yoshiki

#Dies #Ifs

I'm going to quit music. Then the government of Japan asked me to write a piano concerto - that was an offer I couldn't refuse, so that brought me back to music again.
-- Yoshiki

#Writing #Government #Japan

Everything is legit onstage. You can go crazy. I can express my anger. I can cry. Whoa, this is the coolest place!
-- Yoshiki

#Crazy #Cry #Legit

I just do in the stadium the same thing. I scream and I become naked mentally. I give everything to our fans.
-- Yoshiki

#Giving #Fans #Naked

I wanted to have the strongest band. I was always looking for the strongest characters.
-- Yoshiki

#Character #Band #Wanted

A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.

The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.

I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I now believe that whether or not there's a God, there is such a thing as sacredness. Life is sacred. The Sabbath can be a sacred day. Prayer can be a sacred ritual. There is something transcendent, beyond the everyday. It's possible that humans created this sacredness ourselves, but that doesn't take away from its power or importance.

Psychoanalysts believe that the only "normal" people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else.

I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?

Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.

As long as I have my legs and commitment to the team, then I'll keep playing.

I want to continue doing as big a variety of things as I can do, and if that means I have the honor of getting to do more feature work, I would love that. I know that if I make any other long-term TV commitments, it's not going to be on a drama.

It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.

When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen. A good clothing is a passport for happiness.