Mickey Melchiondo famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

When you first start doing it, being on tour is inspiring, because you've never been anywhere.
-- Mickey Melchiondo

#Inspiring #Firsts
If you write 50 songs, you're bound to write at least a dozen good ones.
-- Mickey Melchiondo

#Song #Writing #Dozen
On tour, I'll get up at 5 p.m. and go to bed at 8 in the morning. With fishing, it's the exact opposite. Fishing is the only healthy thing I do. Touring is such a grind; it's the opposite of healthy.
-- Mickey Melchiondo

#Morning #Fishing #Opposites
I get sick when I think about someone going to iTunes and downloading two songs off our album. It's not meant to be listened to that way.
-- Mickey Melchiondo

#Song #Thinking #Two
I want to make 20, 30, 50 studio records.
-- Mickey Melchiondo

#Records #Want
If you can find one thing in your life that can keep you in the moment, you're totally lucky.
-- Mickey Melchiondo

#Lucky #Moments
The juxtaposition between fishing and touring couldn't be greater.
-- Mickey Melchiondo

#Fishing #Juxtaposition #Touring
When you make a great record, it's around forever.
-- Mickey Melchiondo

#Forever #Records
I would read fishing reports on the road and then it just occurred to me: I should go to sea school and get my captain's license, see if I can get paid to be out here every day.
-- Mickey Melchiondo

#School #Sea #Fishing

Have more humility. Remember you don't know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if you keep pushing beyond yourself, you will enrich your own life â€“ and maybe even please a few strangers.
To create is, first and foremost, to create time.
This one question-'What do I know for certain?'-is tremendously powerful. When you look deeply into this question, it actually destroys your world. It destroys your whole sense of self, and it's meant to. You come to see that everything you think you know about yourself, everything you think you know about the world, is based on assumptions, beliefs, and opinions-things that you believe because you were taught or told they were true. Until we start to see these false perceptions for what they really are, consciousness will be imprisoned within the dream state.
Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.
It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.
That's already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.
When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.

Mickey Melchiondo famous quotes

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