M.C. Steve Quotes

In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs.

I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.

If you're studying Geology, which is all facts, as soon as you get out of school you forget it all, but Philosophy you remember just enough to screw you up for the rest of your life.

I'm always looking for something to engage my imagination and take me on a little mental voyage. I just want a new topic in my life.

Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion, too.

I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act on stage, which is what I really enjoyed and saw myself doing. And I bought books on it.

Every country that's ever been the most powerful country in the world ceases to be the most powerful country in the world at some point.

It's funny that some ideas start with a little "What if?" and then suddenly you're spending a million dollars to shoot the scene and hoping that it works.

Knowledge of means without knowledge of ends is animal training.

I can juggle. I started juggling as a kid. And when I worked at Disneyland, I knew a juggler there named Christopher Faire, and he taught me how to juggle. I used it in my comedy act for a while.

That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.

The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.

To be with another woman, that is French. To be caught, that is American.

I just wanted to be in show business. I didn't care if I was going to be an actor or a magician or what. Comedy was a point of the least resistance, really. And on the simplest level, I loved comedy.

There are no secrets on an successful software project. Both good and bad news must be able to move up and down the ptoject hierarchy without restriction.

In my experience, you either have encapsulation and abstraction or you have neither. There is no middle ground.

It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.

When the rhythm and night ride, no heart can hide.

I'm always searching for that element of discovery, whether I'm making music, or just generally.

When life is too much, roll with it, baby.

I always feel I'm an amateur. I don't most of the time know what I'm doing.

I think it was wishful thinking of me to dream of being an NBA player. And once I made the NBA I dreamed of being an All-Star, but I never dreamed of being an MVP.

You can move beyond the ego's perspective and see reality from the perspective of a higher consciousness.

Passion requires focused direction, and that direction must come from three other areas: your purpose, your talents, and your needs.

I think the best friendships are those that can stand the test of time, where the friendship is based more on who you are than on what you do or what you have.

Believing that you must do something perfectly is a recipe for stress, and you'll associate that stress with the task and thus condition yourself to avoid it

One of the secrets to success is recognizing that motivation follows action.

I want my life to have had more value than just acquiring stuff and living comfortably. I may die rich, or I may die broke. But I won't die with my music still in me.

The only time I'm miserable is when I can't keep an instrument in tune.

So that's the challenge for me and that has always been the challenge - finding that melody, that riff, that thing that just lights me up and makes me feel like it's Christmas.

What I look for in music is artistry, sincerity, and simplicity, and Tom Waits has all of that. I want to make a connection to the creator.

I've had an advantage; I've had a sort of open public acceptance in New York that doesn't happen to just anyone trying to make the transition you were talking about.

I wouldn't be interested in just doing a show that's mapped out and choreographed with a set list. That would've been boring so long ago it just wouldn't be any fun.

My ideal day would be to get a good work out in, listen to music, talk to my family and friends on the phone, read and go to a good movie.

I used to get 15-20 bunt hits a season. Now, I'm down to five or six. Infielders still play me in, but I'm always looking if the opportunity is there.

It's the playoffs. You find a way to get through.

I'm not a Christian because I need a crutch. Hey, I need a stretcher!

My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.

Our centers spread the floor, shoot the three and block shots. We can play pick and pop.

Anytime you play a finalist it's going to be a challenge.

It's one that still happens, actually... forgetting a part of a difficult piece. Usually, the chances of it happening are directly proportional to how quiet and attentive the audience is.

The best thing about making films is the time spent making them. When I see works that I've made, I always think what a great time I had making them. The films remind me of that time.

I really don't like to act. At the beginning, back in '51, I had to force myself to stick with it. I was real uncomfortable, real uncomfortable.

I never knew what top golf was like until I turned professional. Then it was too late.

I've been a serial husband, and I've done it badly every time.

We're trying to increase the efficiency of students to learn from current instruction.

I'm supposed to make people cry, but not by manipulating.

We are bullish on the health benefits, but they have to bring value.

I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect.

I have a tendency, especially when I'm playing with great players, to try and get them the ball.