Jerry Quotes

The only way things work around here is if everybody wants it to work. If everybody wants it to work, then it has a prayer. Even then, there's no guarantee. But at least it has a prayer.

I don't feel that one instrument has more weight than others. Any sound that you can produce adds to your vocabulary of possibilities.

If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.

Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.

Kerouac was a breeze, some kind of incredible super-American, mythos personality blasting through the highways of 1947 America.

I am not a keyboard person. The mouse is better.

The world has to tell us. In other words, we don't have an agenda or a battle plan or a map or a direction or anything. We're just going along, and our world is telling us.

In the last 100 years since the invention of sound reproduction, music has really taken off and it is much more a common language because of records and transportation.

Western ears have a hard time hearing anything that isn't in four-four time. A lot of cultures experience music in five-eight, for example, five-four.

You reach into cyberspace and you grab some cyber stuff, build it up, and the computer will give you a 360 of it.

There is no dogma, there isn't anything about how the universe works.

That's part of that thing of transcending languages. Every person will have their own language.

Most musicians, regardless of what culture they come from, can get together and agree on some stuff about music. As there is going to be a common ground.

every mind is at least as heavy as mine

I sat down to my supper, twas a bottle of red whiskey.

Problems are not problems at all, but results that are dissatisfying.

Recycling, packaging, businesses are changing all of those things because that's what consumers want.

I like that Ben & Jerry's is willing to speak out about social and political issues that aren't always safe - but are the right thing to do.

It's pretty rare to have CEOs or high level executives at big companies who are social activists. They tend not to be drawn to those areas of life.

One of the great things about Ben & Jerry's for me is that not only is it delicious, but I get it for free.

It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.

I eat many different ice creams. I'm not an ice cream snob, although I do think Ben & Jerry's is the best. But I'm happy to eat anybody's ice cream, really. As long as it's good.

If you happen to believe what Ben & Jerry's is supporting and involved in, then you should support the company. If you don't believe in what we are supporting, don't support it.

Jealousy is the fear of losing the thing you love most. It's very normal. Suspicion is the thing that's abnormal.

I love my kids and would rather be with them than anyone in the whole wide world.

I have very old-fashioned tastes.

I suppose they're confident. I think younger guys love the idea of a divorced woman who's going to teach them how to be a man.

I can't multiply myself out of a paper bag. But when it comes to roots, I'm your man.

With Jerry Bruckheimer, you know you'll get your money's worth. You're getting huge action sequences, it's going to be funny, and you know it's going to look great.

Playing professional football is something I'll never be able to do.

It's a different experience to be with your kids when your spouse isn't around.

What dark corner of the soul did you crawl out of?

I'm the kind of guy who can't keep a plant alive for a week, let alone a relationship.

I think it's chauvinistic to think that women don't like to get scared.

I mean do women like to get the crap scared out of them at the movies? Sure. Of course.

I grew up with all boys in my family, where there was no place for girlie stuff. But it's amazing to walk into my house now. Everything is pink!

Horror movies are here to stay, you know? It's not a fad. Even the musical has gone in and out of style from time to time. Horror movies have always been around.

I think of myself as a funny guy but nobody thinks I'm funnier than my daughters.

All my life, since I was 16, I've been wondering where that next job was gonna come from.

I don't like to dwell all day over one scene as you do in a big feature.

I have to believe that when I finish a project, that I will not only grow as an artist, but as a person.

All of us have places that we can go where we feel most complete.

If I were to give myself a pat on the back, it would be for sticking with bookmaking as my primary way of expressing myself over the span of fifty years.

Part of what I'm doing with generations is that I try to express in my work pieces of my growing up years that I can look back on with great fondness - specifically, a sense of family.

I do think it's important to expose kids to artists.

I've tried to use the recognition as validation that I'm doing the kind of work that people are interested in and to feel that my work is a contribution.

If you submit a search of the following phrase on Google, you get over four hundred returns, and they are often very strange ones: "I have more information in one place than anybody in the world."

Freedom is not free. It is bought at a high price. It can be squandered cheaply.

Unrestricted laissez faire capitalism allocates resources in a most efficient way to satisfy human wants without regard to the rationality or morality of those desires.

Grinding the faces of the poor seems to be the policy of the Greens.