M.C. Steve Quotes

It's a lot easier to think of an app and write it than it is to convince people to want it.

I have always respected education, which is why I actually went back secretly and taught school for eight years.

Artists work best alone. Work alone.

You should stay closely connected to the technology when you start your company.

I wanted to be an elementary school teacher my whole life.

We truly could have used the later Jobs in earlier years at Apple, is what I feel.

I want to feel that I own things.

I hate to say it, and Apple never likes it, but I love anything that's hacker oriented. I don't like passing it onto others, or getting things for free. I don't like stealing music one bit, at all.

I think everything I have done in my life, my reasons at the time were right no matter how things worked out.

I think Apple's revenge is just the fact that Windows, you know, PCs all became Macintoshes in a way.

I wanted to be a fifth grade teacher because my teacher was so important to me and was giving me the education that was going to take me through life and through this world.

He [Steve Jobs] had more of the future vision: We can bring this to everyone; we can start a company; we can sell it.

I'm also a fan with sticking with the most standard software that millions of other users also use, because you get the benefit of all those other users' problems and solutions.

I went drinking with Gray Powell and all I got was a lousy iPhone prototype.

Great programmers learn how to program their tools, not just use them.

We don't have a Steve Jobs here. I'm sorry, but we don't.

No one can keep their word. Everyone's in hurry and jumping to the next opportunity. There's something missing.

Music saved my life a few times because I could play the stuff rednecks loved. They thought I was great and they wondered why I didn't do that all the time.

I'd rather work with guys that have time to live with you, and let it gel.

One of the things that benefited me that anyone can learn is classical technique. That shows the orchestra that exists within the instrument.

My favorite record I've ever done is Rock Salt and Nails. It was recorded in '68-'69 and released in '69. There's something about that record I really like.

I didn't have the self-promotion instinct, and I just didn't care about it. I sort of had a "beat" attitude.

I was such a heavy drinker I was going to die at age 37. Not to mention the drugs. I'm glad to be sober, I haven't missed a thing. A lot of people never get the chance to come back.

The song [The White Trash Song] was not a put down of [ my country cousins ], but a celebration. I wrote that early on, as a teenager.

I notice guys playing the piano playing a part up here and a part down there, and I wandered why couldn't I do that on the guitar?

Gibson ES 125 was a real instrument, this was in 1956. I started learning; I had a vision of a sound.

51 Martin [guitar] sounded pretty good as new guitar. Martin has several levels of guitars now, and this one is pretty good.

I have somewhat [Taylor's or Gallagher's guitars], but I like the power of the Martins.

If I wasn't so lazy, or if I had a roadie, I'd have a line of guitars on stage. I'd have a lap steel and a nylon string up there, but who wants to keep up with all that?

I was born and grew up in the Deep South, and I must say it wasn't easy for me. I always marched to a drummer, I had different views about politics and religion and I had them relatively young.

I was known to spout off about [ politics and religion] sometimes, especially in my drinkin' days! It was pretty dangerous actually.

I did admire the comments and the music of Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie. And that didn't fly too well in the Deep South. It was not quite redneck enough.

I like the idea of having an old Gibson [guitar], but I don't have one. The Gibson has a different quality, but it's almost like you need both.

My playing style is very eccentric and mostly self taught.

I heard black people sing and the emotion was overwhelming to me. The power of that with all the built in sorrow and joy was just overwhelming to me as a little kid. It was the real deal.

I really wanted a guitar. As A little boy I used to tell people I was going to be a musician. They would humor me, and I'd make up thirty minute songs and drive them nuts.

I grew up wanting a guitar, my family was very poor. When I was fourteen my mother bought me a Gibson ES 125 thin body. That was a bunch of money in those days - $125.00.

In medieval times, artists had patrons that supported them and this is a similar thing, ... We're basically saying, 'Wouldn't you like to be a part of this'

The end is here, and you don't want be here. You are the best in the world at something, and you know you are not going to be that great at anything else.

When you play quarterback in San Francisco, not much goes under the radar.

I give NFL quarterbacks a lot of leeway for a couple of years.

When it gets to this point, it's just hard to pull the trigger.

I look forward to a lot more free time, at least initially, with my wife, Lisa, and our three children.

I'm very confident my health isn't going to allow me to be a good player, especially in the spring.

I knew if I wanted to be a general manager, I was going to have to leave to work for another organization.

My sister gave me a big bucket of Cool Whip. Isn't that awesome? For two weeks I basically watched Emergency! and ate cool whip with a spoon.

You still really fight for good parts. It never stops. It's never a breeze. The people at the top of their game work as hard as the people at the bottom.

You have to make something good. Just because all the hot actors show up and the money is there and the explosives are ready, it doesn't matter.

The werewolf film is a strange thing.

Most people laugh at situations rather than a tagline anyway.