June 16, 2006

Quotage

Haven't done this for a while.

"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."
- John Lennon

"The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail. You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all."
- John Cassavetes

"I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No.' "
- Woody Allen

"I don't pray because I don't want to bore God."
- Orson Welles

"We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace."
- Michael Franti

"I'm not offended by dumb blonde jokes because I know that I'm not dumb. I also know I'm not blonde."
- Dolly Parton

"So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal."
- William S. Burroughs

"You know, performance is communicating. You've got a song you're singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their gut."
- Johnny Cash

"Johnny Cash was plenty good enough to fool his fans. They believed he felt it in his soul when he sang the Gospel while stoned on drugs."
- Suzanne Fields

"I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?"
- Willie Nelson

"Why does there have to be a soundcheck? I don't have a songcheck. You don't have a clothescheck."
- Prince

"Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end."
- Kris Kristofferson

"Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me."
- John Lennon

"The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results."
- James Dean

Posted by joey at June 16, 2006 5:19 PM