Why Quotes

As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you're attached to it.

I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.

Why do I want somebody to tell me what to do, tell me what I'm doing wrong? I want to be the boss.

Drugs are marvelous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape?

The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?

What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

At the very least we should be given a bit of credit and a little bit of space, and maybe the media should think we could help them discover why English teams do not win European competitions.

You may not like the humor, but that is why every radio has an on-off button.

The older you get, and the more you're in this business, the more you kind of feel like, 'Why don't we just do it my way?'

Why do people always gesture with their hands when they talk on the phone?

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

I don't like L.A. It's just not fun. I don't know why, but I just don't get it. You have to drive to get everywhere, and when it rains everybody freaks out.

I remember in 1990, there were five of us making $3 million a year. When guys passed us, we didn't cry. Why would we cry? You didn't get mad when someone got $6 million. Or $8 million.

I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.

It didn't rain today, so I didn't have to work. Why don't you have to sit around and wait until it rains?

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

I think that it's always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with peace, the well-being of people, and human dignity.

The educator and the public need to have an opportunity to discuss why certain art is important.

There are a lot of things in Queen albums that you don't expect; that's why we threw them in.

Westerners know the difference between a talker and the real deal. If Rick Perry wasn't right to be governor of Texas, why should he be president?

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?

That's why I haven't been so anxious. But now, lots of people write and say, 'I want to find out what you're doing.' So I know that this book will enlighten them.

Of course, China is a key to the North Korea if we're going to solve that riddle, but they could also be helpful on Iraq, which is why it's important that we maintain a constructive dialogue with China.

I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.

Now I feel and I say all the time that vanity is, like, long gone. I'm really free of worrying about what I look like, because it's out of my shaky hands. I don't control it. So why would I waste one second of my life worrying about it?

We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to the universe that our brains will be able to understand the deepest workings?

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big?