John Quotes

Have pride and entertainment. I think that a lot bands just don't know how to do it anymore or they lost interest in it or don't care and are just cashing a paycheck.

Music crosses cultures and language barriers and it makes people feel good.

Music is a potent energy force.

Just ask yourself what record you played over and over again when you were depressed or what record made you really happy? Those will never change and you should never be embarrassed by it.

People tend to forget that we tie our life history to music like the soundtrack to your life in many more ways than just having a hit record on the radio.

I'm a blues guy and I listen to blues all the time and blues is timeless.

The longer you live, the longer you hear the repetitiveness of things. So, it's hard to get excited about new stuff.

If you're asking me have I purchased a CD, a DVD or downloaded a current artist? The answer is no.

You can create art that makes people feel better.

You can kill somebody, but I wouldn't advise that.

Take away all the emotional baggage of any band's fight, be it The Beatles or The Stones, but in the end, you just enjoy the creativity. That's what the legacy is.

Materialism ends up denying the existence of any irreducible subjective qualitative states of sentience or awareness.

In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.

A lot of people are afraid of dolls - everybody remembers Chucky.

When I first came to New York, I would scream like a girl and run to the other side of the street if there was a pigeon. Now I can face off with a pigeon.

Everyone has a ghost story, or at least thats how it has always seemed to me.

My first day as an intern in the books department at Cosmopolitan also happened to be the day the O.J. Simpson verdict was announced.

My dad was a cross-country truck driver.

My writing is sort of Sidney Sheldon meets Anne Tyler.

I think that my past stands me in good stead in that it does have a certain strength for musicians.

The Jug Band was exactly what I wanted to do, and it wasn't my idea.

My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.

First of all I think that is true, if you are a musician, particularly on the comeback that you do have to end up in one of these musical centers somewhere to be viable, salable and so on.

My father was invited to play on a television show when I was 17 or 18, that was an early equivalent of educational television. Sunday afternoon kind of variety art show.

You have to remember now, I was not being terribly successful at going solo.

Processes don't do work, people do

A wise man should never resolve upon anything, at least, never let the world know his resolution, for if he cannot reach that he is ashamed.

Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.

Opinion is something wherein I go about to give reasons why all the world should think as I think.

Casting out devils is mere juggling; they never cast out any but what they first cast in.

Those that govern most make least noise.

Men say they are of the same religion, for quietness' sake; but if the matter were well examined, you would scarce find three anywhere of the same religion on all points.

We see the judges look like lions, but we do not see who moves them.

The clergy would have us believe them against our own reason, as the woman would have her husband against his own eyes.

Wit and wisdom are born with a man.

Never king dropped out of the clouds.

We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.

If the prisoner should ask the judge whether he would be content to be hanged, were he in his case, he would answer no. Then, says the prisoner, do as you would be done to.

Of all the actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all the actions of our lives, 'tis the most meddled with by other people.

We pick out a text here and there to make it serve our turn; whereas , if we take it all together, and considered what went before and what followed after, we should find it meant no such thing.

Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up his dignity.

Marriage is a desperate thing.

No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

Gentelmen heve ever been more temperate in their religion than common people, as having more reason.

Preaching, in the first sense of the word, ceased as soon as ever the gospel was written.

We look after religion as the butcher did after his knife, when he had it in his mouth.

Money makes a man laugh.

Preachers say, "Do as I say, not as I do." But if a physician had the same disease upon him that I have, and he should bid me do one thing and he do quite another, could I believe him?

The law against witches does not prove there be any; but it punishes the malice of those people that use such means to take away men's lives.

Fine wits destroy themselves with their own plots, in meddling with great affairs of state.