Cat Stevens famous quotes

04-05-2025

Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.
-- Cat Stevens

#Healing #Humanity #Looks
Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment. And music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony.
-- Cat Stevens

#Air #Giving #Connections
If you want to be free be free
-- Cat Stevens

#Want
I listen to the wind, to the wind of my soul Where I end up, well, I think only God really knows
-- Cat Stevens

#Thinking #Wind #Soul
I've been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as one. And I believe it could be someday it's going to come.
-- Cat Stevens

#Dream #Hippie #Believe
Lord, my body has been a good friend But I won't need it when I reach the end Miles from nowhere, Guess I'll take my time Oh yeah, to reach there
-- Cat Stevens

#Good Friend #Needs #Body
If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are.
-- Cat Stevens

#Music #Freedom #Reflection
I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.
-- Cat Stevens

#Love #Happiness #Laughter
I did not come into contact with any Muslim before I embraced Islam. I read the Qur'an first and realized no person is perfect, Islam is perfect, and if we imitate the conduct of the Holy Prophet... we will be successful.
-- Cat Stevens

#Successful #Perfect #Islam
The greatest legacy is that which benefits the widest number of people for the longest period without limit to value. No one but the Prophet Muhammad was given that role as the seal of God's message.
-- Cat Stevens

#Numbers #People #Legacy
I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.
-- Cat Stevens

#Spiritual #Reality #Violence
I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.
-- Cat Stevens

#Ties #Giving #Strings
I suppose that the media and their portrayal of Islam and the almost tribal separations and divisions of the Muslims are the greatest issues confronting Muslims in the United Kingdom.
-- Cat Stevens

#Media #Issues #Islam
If you want to be free, be free, because there's a million things to be.
-- Cat Stevens

#Hippie #Want
I never thought I'd be on the same stage as Kiss.
-- Cat Stevens

#Kissing #Fame #Stage
Moderation is part of faith, so those who accuse Muslim schools of fostering fanaticism should learn a bit more about Islam.
-- Cat Stevens

#Faith #School #Islam
I became alienated from this religious upbringing, and started making music. I wanted to be a big star. All those things I saw in the films and on the media took hold of me, and perhaps I thought this was my god: the goal of making money.
-- Cat Stevens

#Religious #Stars #Media
The very first lesson that I learnt from the Qur'an was the message of unity and peace.
-- Cat Stevens

#Unity #Lessons #Messages
There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.
-- Cat Stevens

#Powerful #People #Needs
Communal well-being is central to human life.
-- Cat Stevens

#Human Life #Well Being #Wells
I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.
-- Cat Stevens

#People #Common Sense #Justice
I always stood for the elimination of conflict and wars, and any of those causes that ignite them.
-- Cat Stevens

#War #Causes #Conflict
I tried Zen and Ching, numerology, tarot cards and astrology. I tried to look back into the Bible, and could not find anything. At this time I did not know anything about Islam, and then, what I regarded as a miracle occurred. My brother had visited the mosque in Jerusalem, and was greatly impressed that while on the one hand it throbbed with life.
-- Cat Stevens

#Brother #Hands #Astrology
You can argue with a philosopher, but you canâ€™t argue with a good song. And I think Iâ€™ve got a few good songs.
-- Cat Stevens

#Song #Thinking #Philosopher
Though times have changed, it's a nice surprise to see that youthful feeling of anti-war sentiment returning once more to the cobbled main streets of Europe.
-- Cat Stevens

#War #Nice #Europe
Violence is almost an everyday occurrence in some Muslim lands: it should not be exacerbated by revenge attacks on more innocent families and communities.
-- Cat Stevens

#Revenge #Land #Community

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