Teenagers are asking, 'Who am I?' and 'How do I fit in?' in every aspect of their lives, and the best YA romances appreciate that there is more to a teen's life than finding love.
~ Sarah Maclean
I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.
~ Uma Thurman
I wouldn't say I'm stuck in my adolescence, but I think, like a lot of people, I carry my teen years with me. I feel really in touch with those feelings, and how intense and complicated life seems in those years.
~ Sara Zarr
Certain elements of teen life that, 10 years ago, were very important to me still, are becoming less so as I get older. I mean, I've kinda gotten over, I guess I'm saying, the fact that I had trouble getting a date for the prom.
~ Matthew Tobin Anderson
Teen movies often have an unspoken underlying premise in which high school is seen as less serious than the adult world. But when your head is encased in that microcosm it's the most serious time of your life.
~ Rian Johnson
But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise.
~ Wayne Kramer
I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.
~ Robert Cormier
I don't really think I feel pressured to become a teen sensation because that's not really my goal in life. It's not really about being star, being popular or having lots of girls. It's really about continuing to be able to act and have fun, and do what I like to do.
~ Chris Massoglia
Because of people like that guy in San Francisco who told me it changed his life, 'Teen Witch' is my most favorite thing I've ever done. I see how happy it makes people, and that makes me happy. The great thing is that no one realized it was going to become all these things when we were making it. We thought we were making a very serious movie.
~ Robyn Lively
Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There's not some trick involved with it. It's pure and it's real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.
~ Tom Petty
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
~ Plato
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
~ Berthold Auerbach
Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
~ Ronald Reagan
Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
~ Pat Conroy
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
~ Ludwig Van Beethoven
I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.
~ Christina Milian
Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is.
~ Louis Armstrong
I was raised in a very humble environment, and I was always taught to be humble to the things that are happening in my life because they're blessings. They're blessings in every way. Whether you're able to help someone get through a tough time in their life through your music or through comedy, or whatever it is, you're just a channel.
~ Justin Timberlake
As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
~ Yo-Yo Ma
Having good health, being able to breathe and be happy, that's one of the most beautiful gifts. On top of that, I have the gift to play music and make people happy through that. I'm just telling you from my heart, I'm so in love with life.
~ Roy Ayers
I don't care what people think of me, unless they think I'm mean or something, but I don't care if they think I'm like someone else because I know I'm not - I'm a total weirdo. I'm not selling a dream; I'm not selling fame like it is some sort of fantastic thing. I'm just trying to sell music and get on with my real life.
~ Sia
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
~ Jean Paul
Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.
~ Bruce Springsteen
Music washes away the dust of every day life.
~ Art Blakey
I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things bigger than life's daily routines... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient.
~ Mikhail Baryshnikov
Music is the emotional life of most people.
~ Leonard Cohen
Reggae has a philosophy, you know? It's not just entertainment. There's an idea behind it, a way of life behind the music, which is a positive way of life, which is a progressive way of life for better people.
~ Ziggy Marley
I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself to the pain so to speak and kind of being able to vent it through my music.
~ Chester Bennington
I need drama in my life to keep making music.
~ Eminem
Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.
~ Lenny Kravitz
Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It's transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It's uplifting, it's encouraging, it's strengthening.
~ Aretha Franklin
Tintinnabulation is an area I sometimes wander into when I am searching for answers - in my life, my music, my work. In my dark hours, I have the certain feeling that everything outside this one thing has no meaning.
~ Arvo Pärt
Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.
~ Questlove
Making words rhyme for a living is one of the great joys of my life... That's a superpower I've been very conscious of developing. I started at the same level as everybody else, and then I just listened to more music and talked to myself until it was an actual superpower I could pull out on special occasions.
~ Lin-Manuel Miranda
Music is really driving my whole life.
~ Ariana Grande
I have absorbed my life now. I am ready for my music to unfold. I know time flies, but before the end of this year, the album will be out. Even if it kills me.
~ Neneh Cherry
It's very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it's really a beautiful thing for someone like me. I dedicated my entire life to this music.
We should make decisions in life with our hearts, not our brains, not only in music but in daily life.
~ Andre Rieu
For me, music and life are all about style.
~ Miles Davis
Blues is my life. It's a true feeling that comes from the heart, not something that just comes out of my mouth. Blues is what I love, and blues is what I always do.
~ Koko Taylor
