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In music, you can use metaphors with ease - if a person doesn't understand the parable, they can still enjoy the melody of the music. If, however, a person reads a book and misses the meaning of its metaphors, this will be extremely disheartening for both the reader as well as the author.
- Cat Stevens
#Meaning
#Music
#Person
#Understand
#Will
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
#God
#Making Money
#Me
#Money
#Music
'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
#Feel
#Hope
#Peace
#People
#Rise
#Song
I became very famous, as a teenager, and my name and photo were splashed in all the media. They made me larger than life, so I wanted to live larger than life, and the only way to do that was to be intoxicated.
- Cat Stevens
#Famous
#Life
#Live
#Me
#Media
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
#Cause
#Free
#Know
#Million
#Want
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
#Connection
#Harmony
#Love
#Me
#Music
Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.
- Cat Stevens
#Death
#Indeed
#Law
#Who
#Writer
All things can be forgiven if we can progress.
- Cat Stevens
#All Things
#Forgiven
#Progress
#Things
I used to be followed by a moon shadow. Now I'm followed by all these misconceptions, and they're like a ball and chain. I just want to write music from my heart and give people a message of hope and the search for a better place.
- Cat Stevens
#Heart
#Hope
#Music
#Search
#Shadow
I became a vegetarian, and I carried around a suitcase full of vitamins and special drinks everywhere I went.
- Cat Stevens
#Full
#Special
#Vegetarian
#Vitamins
Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life.
- Cat Stevens
#Earth
#God
#Life
#Man
#Preparation
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
#First
#Islam
#Perfect
#Person
#Will
To be what you want to be, you must give up being what you are.
- Cat Stevens
#Being
#Give
#Must
#Up
#Want
Communal well-being is central to human life.
- Cat Stevens
#Human Life
#Human
#Life
#Well-Being
A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief.
- Cat Stevens
#Bread
#Famine
#Person
#Thief
#Who
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
#Good People
#Good
#I Am
#Justice
#Live
Everything I do is for the pleasure of Allah.
- Cat Stevens
#Allah
#Everything
#Pleasure
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
#Cry
#Laughter
#Looking Back
#Me
#Tears
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
#History
#Humanity
#Knowledge
#Music
#Way
When many astronauts go to space, they see the insignificant size of the earth and vastness of space, and they become very religious, because they have seen the Signs of Allah.
- Cat Stevens
#Allah
#Earth
#Go
#See
#Space
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