Cat Stevens Quotes

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• To be what you want to be, you must give up being what you are.

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  Inspiring, Giving Up, Want

  "'Music is part of God's universe'". Interview with Nigel Williamson, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2005.

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• 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.

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  Love, Happiness, Laughter

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• You may still be here tomorrow...but your dreams may not.

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  Dream, May, Tomorrow

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• 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

  Song: If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out

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• Take your time, think a lot,
  Why, think of everything you've got.
  For you will still be here tomorrow, but your dreams may not.
  From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen.
  Now there's a way and I know that I have to go away.
  I know I have to go.

  Cat Stevens

  Dream, Travel, Thinking

  "Song: 'Father and Son' ('Tea for the Tillerman')". 1970.

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• Say what you think; think what you mean.

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  Mean, Thinking

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• 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, Believe, Hippie

  Song: Peace Train, 1971

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• Positive thoughts and prayer have been the best means available, since the beginning of time, to transform darkness to light.

  Cat Stevens

  Prayer, Recovery, Mean

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• And though you want to last forever,
  You know you never will,
  You know you never will,
  And the good-bye makes the journey harder still.

  Cat Stevens

  Goodbye, Song, Journey

  Song: Oh Very Young, Album: Buddha and the Chocolate Box

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• 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, Way Forward, Common Humanity

  "The Billboard Q&A: Yusuf Islam". Interview with Nigel Williamson, November 17, 2006.

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• Music is part of God's universe.

  Cat Stevens

  Music Is, Universe

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• From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen.

  Cat Stevens

  Family, Moments, Take Your Time

  Song: Father and Son, Album: Saturnight, 1970

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• Life is a journey, you know; and a lot of journeys, you go out, you come back.

  Cat Stevens

  Journey, Life Is A Journey, Life Is

  London Tonight Interview, ITV, December 08, 2009.

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• Ooh baby, baby, it's a wild world, it's hard just to get by upon a smile.

  Cat Stevens

  Baby, Reality, Wild World

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• There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.

  Cat Stevens

  Powerful, People, Needs

  "Catching a ride on the peace train 'Peace Train' Rolling Again". www.billboard.com. March 7, 2003.

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• 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

  "Song: 'The Wind' ('Teaser and the Firecat')". 1971.

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• 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.

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  Air, Giving, Connections

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• 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.

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  Justice, People, Common Sense

  "A cat in a wild world" by Yusuf Islam, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2004.

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• So on and on I go, the seconds tick the time out There's so much left to know, and I'm on the road to find out.

  Cat Stevens

  Tick, Knows, Seconds

  Song: On The Road To Find Out, Album: Tea for the Tillerman

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• 'Peace Train' is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions. There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.

  Cat Stevens

  Song, Powerful, Heart

  "Catching a Ride on the Peace Train". www.smh.com.au. April 21, 2003.

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• Vanity is the most dangerous thing about fame.

  Cat Stevens

  Fame, Dangerous

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you want to be free be free

  Cat Stevens

  Want, Ifs

  Song: If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out

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• Sun is the reason And the world it will bloom 'Cause sun lights the sky And the sun lights the moon

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  Moon, Light, Sky

  Song: Sun C 79, Album: Buddha and the Chocolate Box, 1974

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• If you want to be you, BE YOU!

  Cat Stevens

  Want, Be You, Ifs

  Song: If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out

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• I let my music take me where my heart wants to go.

  Cat Stevens

  Music, Heart, Want

  Song: The Wind, Album: Teaser and the Firecat, 1971

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