John Quotes

Yeah, Under The Table And Dreaming shaped the way that I think about writing songs.

When you do an interview with me, you're talking to a cheap imitation of the person that I really am. There's no magic in my words, it's just me talking.

I'm pretty good at taking accountability now, and I never did anything to deserve that. It was a really lousy thing for her to do.

Look, demanding somebody do anything in this day and age is not going to fly.

No matter what I do, I'm going to earn it.

My hits are not hits.

Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.

When you're just open but not honest, then you start free-associating garbage.

If you told me I was going to live to 240, I would take 10 years off and try and act. I don't have that kind of time, so I'd much rather stick to playing guitar.

I'm the only person I know who's got a bunch of money.

People are really concerned with what other people are saying about them.

I'm trying everything I can not to be jaded 'cause I don't like jaded musicians.

Nothing feels worse than having to break the stage down before the performance, and I mean nothing.

I quit the media game. I'm out. I'm done.

You know I used to be the back porch poet with my book of lines, always hoping knowing all the time, I'm probably never gonna find the perfect rhyme. . .For heavier things

Sometimes I get scared that I’m going to enter a web address into Twitter thinking it was my browser. That would be bad.

Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain.

Fender Custom Shop made this nickel plated Stratbelieve it or not, it sounds incredible.

I want to be the first guy from my generation who doesn't just represent one record but the promise of a lot of them.

I don't write songs in order to stick it to my exes. I don't release underground dis tracks.

I feel my shows are like a late-night talk show that we settle down and do every night.

Every song I put on a record could be a single and I just pack my bags for it... and the minute it takes off, I'm not gonna be home for a while.

I am not in 'Us Weekly.' I'd have to be going out with someone who is in there to be in there myself.

I feel strikingly domestic. We're in our own world with two busses and trucks.

There's a real self-serving element to hip-hop that threatens its life span.

It's so interesting how success hits people and how they react to it.

I may have taken someone through the wringer psychologically, but I've never been sinister.

I scientifically engineer my music to be as accessible as possible.

Who says I can't be free from all of the things that I used to be?

There's so many inspiring people out there.

I'm not an icon. Not even in America.

I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.

I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.

Gold is a relic from a time when government's were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.

The love of money as a possession...will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.

The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.

Dangerous acts can be done safely in a community which thinks and feels rightly, which would be the way to hell if they were executed by those who think and feel wrongly.

When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.

I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .

Adam Smith and Malthus and Ricardo ! There is something about these three figures to evoke more than ordinary sentiments from us their children in the spirit.

Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant's profit, we have begun to change our civilization.

The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.

If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.

The treasury could fill old bottles with banknotes and bury them..and leave it to private enterprises on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again.

Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.

The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.

The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, — but generally to be obtained at your neighbor's expense.

Perhaps a day might come when there would be at last be enough to go round, and when posterity could enter into the enjoyment of our labors.

The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.

What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!