John Quotes

Art is not great. Music is not great. It's just that they tickle us. When one steadfastly refuses greatness - then and then only can the wonderful thing we call art be created.

Give paint a chance to show itself entirely as paint.

Have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress.

May you never lay your head down, without a hand to hold. May you never make your bed out in the cold.

We're supposed to lose our friends to time, at an age when we're ready to agree to the terms of having lived a long life. Not now.

God only knows how much I'd love you if you let me, but I can't break through at all.

In the quest to be clever, I completely forgot about the people that I love and that love me.

I've never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, 'We're full.'

Waiting on the World to Change.

I'm having the time of my life figuring out this next move.

Trying to impress my mother with words was one of my favourite pursuits.

Songs can be Trojan horses, taking charged ideas and sneaking past the ego's defenses and into the open mind.

She's perfect, so flawless, I'm not impressed.

My life's a sequel to a movie where the actors' names have changed.

I'm not as surprised in going from playing 1,000 seats to 4,000 seats as I was from 100 to 500 seats.

Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime.

It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music.

I get recognized somewhere in between like local meteorologist and national meteorologist.

Today I finally overcame tryin’ to fit the world inside a picture frame.

By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.

I'd rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.

Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.

A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him.

To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.

Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement.

I know of only three people who really understand money. A professor at another university. One of my students. And a rather junior clerk at the Bank of England.

If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want.

I do know that the world knows or thinks that I have money and lots of it. They perceive me as an old weak man and an easy target.

Making money is easy. It is. The difficult thing in life is not making it, it's keeping it.

We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves from ourselves.

We make the future better than the past. We don't hide from history. We make history.

Every time there's been an out-of-bounds remark made by a Republican, no matter where they are, I have repudiated them.

Our country doesn't depend on the heroism of every citizen. But all of us should be worthy of the sacrifices made on our behalf.

I am the son and grandson of Navy admirals, and I was born into America's service. It wasn't until I was deprived of her company that I fell in love with America.

Thank God for the Saudis and Prince Bandar, and for our Qatari friends.

The role of the vice president is to break ties in the Senate and inquire daily into the health of the president.

I don't doubt the sincerity of my Democratic friends. And they should not doubt ours.

There's a certain romanticism associated with exploration of space, which is one of the major factors why we'll continue.

I have campaigned for reform efforts all over the country, ... What happens in California has significant effect in states like mine that are nearby. It's just a reality.

Gary Bauer has done great things, ... I want to promise you again, you may agree with me, you may disagree with me, but I will do great things.

I am very much in favor of tax cuts.

The only thing championship about Wimbledon is its prestige.

Serena Williams best female player ever - no question.

I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The only difference between the writer and the reader is that the writer is able to dramatise that private world.

I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years.

I think we can win it if my brain holds out.

Humor is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

For me, rhythm is a type of divine mathematics in a way. No matter where you're from, we can all understand the mathematics of rhythm. I try to apply this mathematical thinking to my playing.

When you open box after box of old comics and they're ALL "Archie," you have suffered a trauma from which it is difficult to ever recover.

Don't start with the details. Start with the key ideas, and in a hierarchical fashion, form the details around these larger notions.