John Quotes

People love fact-based songs, which is a very funny idea.

All rock music is fake news.

A lot of times I'll post things on Facebook, and the immediate response will be like, "Stick to the music!"

You have to define how much of a cultural politician you are as a performer. There are times where I just want to remain a civilian.

'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern.

He who goes to bed, and goes to bed sober, Falls as the leaves do, and dies in October; But he who goes to bed, and goes to bed mellow, Lives as he ought to do, and dies an honest fellow.

If you will be a traveler, have always two bags very full. That is one of patience and another of money.

From the physician and lawyer keep not the truth hidden.

Poverty is no vice, but an inconvenience.

For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To use them is a grace, to understand them a good.

Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born.

I've long ago learned that if an idea will stand on its own, it'll stand having the light shone on it. But if you shine light on it and it kind of withers, then it probably wasn't a very good idea.

You should play with real musicians; the best music comes from real people interacting with each other.

Four guys from England took us all by the hand.

You got to hidey-hide, you got to jump and run again. You got to hide-hidey-hide, the old man is down the road.

I loved Western Swing and Hank Williams' music, and I now know that it's a 6th tuning that gives you all of those classic licks.

Mr. Greed, why do you have to own everything that you see?

And I now think that Stratocasters and Telecasters are way cool.

On Eye of the Zombie, I had so-called studio musicians.

Big train from Memphis, now it's gone gone gone, gone gone gone. Like no one before, he let out a roar, and I just had to tag along.

Vanz can't dance, but he'll steal your money.

Washburn's an old American name, but this one was assembled overseas.

I've also become much more the musician I've always wanted to be.

My papa said son don't let the man getcha and do what he done to me.

That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all.

Love is dead; let lovers' eyes, Locked in endless dreams, The extremes of all extremes, Ope no more, for now Love dies.

Revenge proves it's own executioner.

Tis as manlike to bear extremities as godlike to forgive.

He hath shook hands with time.

The only way to quieten me is to invite me to a tennis match.

Part of my strength as an actor comes from what I've learned all these years: when you play a villain, you try to get the light touches; when you play a hero, you try to get in some of the warts.

Peace can be a cover whereby evil men can perpetrate diabolical wrongs.

The price of tapping water into every house is that no one values water any more.

I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any given point, not some itinerary decided before entry.

Art is a statement of one in the face of all; not a statement by one for the use of all.

And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.

We chase the reward, we get the reward and then we discover that the true reward is always the next reward. Buying pleasure is a false end.

Wealth is a monster. It takes a month to learn to control it financially. And many years to learn to control it psychologically.

There cannot be any true leisure until all the world possesses it equally.

Death is the room that is always empty.

There are some men who are consoled by the idea that there are women less attractive than their wives; and others who are haunted by the knowledge that there are more attractive.

Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.

They looked down on her; and she looked up through them.

The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance.

Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?

The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art does to the artist.

Man is about to be deprived of a great pole - work routine. The nightmare of capitalist society is unemployment; the nightmare of cybernetic society will be employment.

People who teach you cram old ideas, old views, old ways, into you. Like covering plants with layer after layer of old earth; it's no wonder the poor things so rarely come up fresh and green.

I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.

How can one build a better self unless on the ruins of the old?