Cat Stevens Quotes

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, Live, End

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

Successful, Islam, Person

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

Laughter, Looking, Cry

In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.
Cat Stevens

Peace, Great, Hope

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, Become, Earth

Everything I do is for the pleasure of Allah.
Cat Stevens

Allah, Everything, Pleasure

Peace Train is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions of human beings.
Cat Stevens

Peace, Human, Through

It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice.
Cat Stevens

Faith, Help, Political

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

Love, Music, She

Communal well-being is central to human life.
Cat Stevens

Life, Human, Communal

Ever since I became a Muslim, I've had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes which I do not subscribe to.
Cat Stevens

Character, Doubt, Trying

The greatest legacy is that which benefits the widest number of people for the longest period without limit to value. No one but the Prophet Muhammad was given that role as the seal of God's message.
Cat Stevens

God, Greatest, Value

I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.
Cat Stevens

Faith, Religion, Spiritual

I looked at some of the statues of Jesus; they were just stones with no life. When they said that God is three, I was puzzled even more but could not argue. I believed it, simply because I had to have respect for the faith of my parents.
Cat Stevens

Life, Faith, God

The very first lesson that I learnt from the Qur'an was the message of unity and peace.
Cat Stevens

Peace, Lesson, Unity

This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general.
Cat Stevens

Beauty, God, Everything

Because I don't play guitar any more, African harmonies and rhythms have been an inspiration to me. I love the raw origin of the sound. It complements my voice and words naturally.
Cat Stevens

Love, Words, Play

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

Life, Famous, Live

I had to learn my faith and look after my family, and I had to make priorities. But now I've done it all and there's a little space for me to fill in the universe of music again.
Cat Stevens

Faith, Music, Family

I suppose that the media and their portrayal of Islam and the almost tribal separations and divisions of the Muslims are the greatest issues confronting Muslims in the United Kingdom.
Cat Stevens

Islam, Greatest, Almost

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

Free, Cause, Ways

It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work.
Cat Stevens

Work, Ignore, Difficult

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, Law, Actually

The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics.
Cat Stevens

Best, Human, Fact

The words of the songs speak for themselves.
Cat Stevens

Words, Speak, Themselves

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Nationality: British

Born: July 21, 1948

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