Inspiring Purple Quotes: A Vibrant Collection to Uplift Your Spirit

"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it."

- Alice Walker

"The key to success is to find a way to stand out–to be the purple cow in a field of monochrome Holsteins."

- Seth Godin

"If you want to make a statement, wear purple."

- Baron Davis

"I never want to get a job because I'm female. I want to get it because I earned it and I deserve it... Whether my hair is going to be blue or purple, people should be judged on how well they do the job and deliver results and whether they do it the right way. That's how I like to be judged; most people are like that."

- Mary Barra

"Be different. Be original. Nobody will remember a specific flower in a garden filled with thousands of the same yellow flower, BUT they will remember the one that managed to change its color to purple."

- Suzy Kassem

"When God made the color purple, God was just showing off."

- Mae Jemison

"I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe."

- Alice Walker

"Prince turned experimental music into pop music. 'When Doves Cry,' the whole 'Purple Rain' soundtrack - he was inspired by the Cocteau Twins and new wave pop and brought it into R&B when he first started, and then it became this cool, next-level, kind of hard-to-digest music. Which is what I felt 'House of Balloons' was."

- The Weeknd

"Purple has always been my favorite color... but purple, when I was a little kid, was a color that boys weren't really allowed to wear. That's what all the kids at school told me. I filled my wardrobe with as much purple as I could possibly find, because who cares? Life's too short to dress by other people's rules."

- Sasha Velour

"The fact that women are very young in obtaining their civil rights and African-Americans are young in obtaining their civil rights, I think it's about time that we extend that to all Americans, whether straight, gay, purple, green, black, brown."

- Octavia Spencer

"I feel like Prince's artistry inspired me as far as staying true to myself and my artistry and what is important to me in my life and applying, you know, all the things that I ever been through into my music, the same way he kinda did in 'Purple Rain.'"

- Ro James

"Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender."

- Alice Walker

"Purple is the color of royalties. It stands for luxury, wealth, and sophistication. It is also the color of passion, romance, and sensitivity."

- Amira

"Many readers fail to realize this, but 'The Color Purple' is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one's original God: the earth and nature."

- Alice Walker

"We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the turquoise seas of the tropics."

- Dan Aykroyd

"I have friends who are black, white, purple, gay, straight, Martian, yellow, old, and young. I have friends who are animals and a few who I believe to be robots. All of them are people to me. In my mind, it's not about what you look like or what you do; it's about who you are inside."

- Tracy Morgan

"Deep Purple is a damn good band and we've made a niche in rock 'n' roll history. Maybe not a huge one but enough to be very proud of."

- Jon Lord

"After months of playing air guitar to 'Free Bird', what really got me into guitar was watching a documentary about Jimi Hendrix and picking up the Woodstock soundtrack. Listening to his version of 'Star Spangled Banner' and 'Purple Haze.' My brother played acoustic guitar and, idolising him, I thought, 'I'm going to get a guitar.'"

- Kirk Hammett

"I do quite a lot of art, with a small 'a'. I guess that is how I was dredged up, with paints and crayons. Even when I was at nursery, I knew instinctively how to mix colours, how to make purple or orange."

- Amanda Harlech

"He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors."

- Rudyard Kipling

"The only advice I can give is to absorb as much as you can from as wide a spectrum as you can. If you're in a rock band and only soak up Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, and Deep Purple kind of beginnings, then you're not going to have much leeway."

- Ian Gillan

"For my birthday this year, my girlfriends - who knew I'd just inherited my dad's turntable - gave me a carton of albums like 'Blue Kentucky Girl,' by Emmylou Harris, and 'Off the Wall,' by Michael Jackson. It's all stuff we grew up with. I mean, you can't have a music collection without Prince's 'Purple Rain' - it just can't be done!"

- Connie Britton

"I like playing for the purple and gold. This is where I want to finish up."

- Kobe Bryant

"My grandad was an opera singer, my uncle a jazz musician; I was a boy soprano in the church choir. But the first performance with Deep Purple was something I'll never forget. All elements were working brilliantly."

- Ian Gillan

"It was an amazing experience, a dream come true, to sing and act alongside Prince and become dear friends with all the members of The Revolution while filming 'Purple Rain.'"

- Apollonia Kotero

"I listen to 'Purple Haze' a lot. If I'm in the gym, I listen to that album the whole way through sometimes."

- Cam'ron

"I love Russia. Some people love Africa, some people love Mexico, some people love purple, the color purple. I love Russia, and I'm not scared to say it."

- Steven Seagal

"Purple is the hue worn by a baby witch or warlock. Pink and blue are for mortals."

- Agnes Moorehead

"My favourite genre is probably Seventies rock: Deep Purple, Black Sabbath. I love that stuff because it's what everyone was into when I was a teenager."

- Martin Kemp

"I think one of my first jokes - in the black community, there's people who have jokes about skin tone. People like, 'You so black, you purple.' 'You so black, you gotta smile so we can see you at night.'"

- Hannibal Buress

"Being a purple van man means I have my own perspective on things."

- Sean Lock

"I'm not posh, not in the slightest. My parents spent some money on my education, but I wasn't born to the purple."

- Matthew Goode

"I had the misfortune of getting what skateboarders call hippers. It's when you fall on your hip again and again and again, just the same spot. It turns into like a blue purple bruise and it's just torture because I had to keep on doing the same move, going around in the pool again."

- Emile Hirsch

"The POW camps of North Vietnam were packed with Air Force and Naval Academy graduates. The six midshipmen in my Naval Academy class of 1968 who served as liaisons between the Marine Corps and the Brigade of Midshipmen later suffered nine Purple Hearts in Vietnam, and one man killed in action."

- Jim Webb

"There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals."

- Herman Melville

"As far as Deep Purple goes, I mean, they're iconic. Their contribution is unquantifiable, and as far as the politics involved in things like awards, you know, I don't think anything, because I know what they mean to me, and I know what they mean to the people who like them. Awards are very politically based."

- Steve Vai

"I love purple because my name is Amethyst."

- Iggy Azalea

"In third grade, I played basketball with the boys every day at lunch. I had braces that were yellow and purple, and I wore full Laker uniforms to school."

- Gigi Hadid

"I think the 'New York Times' reviews overall tend to overlook popular fiction, whether you're a man, woman, white, black, purple or pink. I think there are a lot of readers who would like to see reviews that belong in the range of commercial fiction."

- Jodi Picoult

"I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple."

- Bill Waterson

"Purple embodies the balance of red’s stimulation and blue’s calm, inspiring creativity and spirituality."

"Purple sunsets are proof that the most beautiful things come at the end of a hard day."

"Purple is the color of transformation, meditation, and spiritual awareness."