David Quotes

Possibly the only thing we Notekillers place on a higher pedestal than music is laughs, so, of course, we also know that the idea of the title is a kind of humorous futility.

We [Notekillers] aren't necessarily trying to be role models, but if we are, that's cool.

I like to give clues - titles - that can give a simple, evocative hook into what picture or feeling welled up in my mind when I came up with the song.

I do think I've learned, in the ensuing years, how to be a more effective bandleader. And maybe, just maybe, we're a little better on our instruments.

My personal definition of rock'n'roll is people attempting to do something that's beyond their ability to do it well. And whatever the outward contradictions, I do call us a rock'n'roll band.

Еach song is like starting over. Because somehow, no song's formula works for another. And that's the beauty of it all. Each song's destiny is embedded in its DNA. And our job is to reveal it.

Inevitably, as much as we loved punk rock, our noise was coming from a slightly different place.

To me, everything in the world comes down to two categories: "about-ness" and "is-ness". "About" represents or describes something, while "Is" is the thing itself.

Back in the day, I came up with the expression "Same Animal - Different Cages" to describe our songs. I suppose over the years I've just broadened the meaning of that.

There's a good reason catas say me-ow rather than we-ow or you-ow.

I think there's been an overestimation of how much the press can shape coverage and people's decisions.

After all, the reporters are the ones who get to ask the questions.

CNN stands to make a hundred million dollars more than it's expected lift for the election cycle, due to the phenomenon that is Donald Trump.

People working for a news organization, even those with a point of view, are supposed to exercise independent judgment.

The press is supposed to equip people to act as citizens and not just consumers of programming that happens to be news.

You know, trust in the press, polls show - from Pew and other places - have gone down significantly over the years. Maybe the press doesn't have that much ability to frame people's decisions.

Trump's - has great negatives, enormous negatives, a lot of people say they simply won't vote for him. So if he's gotten media, maybe it hasn't done him so much good.

Near counts more than far, familiar more than different. Such is the indictment against the press, that it fails to treat similar tragedies with equal dignity.

The mind is still there even when thoughts are not.

Free shackled rivers!...The finest fantasy of eco-warriors in the West is the destruction of [Glen Canyon] Dam and the liberation of the Colorado [River].

My heroes used to be cowboys.

We are who people think we are.

Ya' know, these days kids seem to be getting younger and younger.

I don’t really mean what I’m saying.

Lightfoot's voice is such a part of the fabric of Canada, I know it almost as well as I know my own voice.

The man who knows his limitations, has none.

The point of books is to combat loneliness.

The severing of an established connection is exponentially more painful than the rejection of an attempted connection.

I am not what you see and hear.

...the sun would leave my sky if I couldn't assume you'd simply come and tell me you were sad.

every failure is also a victory.

I had four hundred thousand pages of continental philosophy and lit theory in my head. And by God, I was going to use it to prove to him that I was smarter than he was.

...morning is the soul's night.

There are no choices without personal freedom, Buckeroo. It's not us who are dead inside. These things you find so weak and contemptible in us - these are just the hazards of being free.

There are secrets within secrets, though--always.

Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty.

Words and a book and a belief that the world is words.

My bones are ringing the way sometimes people say their ears are ringing, I'm so tired.

Not that that mystical stuff's necessarily true: The only thing that's capital-T true is that you get to decide how you're going to try to see it.

Do this: hate him for me after I die. I beg you. Dying request.

He knew what the Beats know and what the great tennis player knows, son: learn to do nothing, with your whole head and body, and everything will be done by what's around you.

The individual's right to pursue his own vision of the best ration of pleasure to pain: utterly sacrosanct.

‎Who would die for this chance to be fed this death of pleasure with spoons, in their warm homes, alone, unmoving?

....basically the sort of guy who looks entirely at home in sockless white loafers and a mint-green knit shirt from Lacoste.

If you've never wept and want to, have a child.

The first time I lay actual eyes on the real David Lynch on the set of his movie, he's peeing on a tree...Mr. David Lynch, a prodigious coffee drinker, apparently pees hard and often.

Do not underestimate objects.

We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.

So yo then man what's your story?

It's probably hard to feel any sort of Romantic spiritual connection to nature when you have to make your living from it.