“In the dime stores and bus stations People talk of situations Read books, repeat quotations Draw conclusions on the wall Some speak of the future My love she speaks softly She knows there’s no success like failure And that failure’s no success at all -Bob Dylan, “Love Minus Zero / No Limit” (1965)”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 122 of 303
“For a time I didn't want to answer any questions about Queen. I'd like to be viewed as something alive and relevant, not some fossil.”
“In the past, some of the songs that were the most fun, and the most entertaining and rocking, fell by the wayside because I was concerned with what I was going to say and how I was going to say it.”
“Are you the sum total of your worst acts?”
“I once read that the only way to enjoy life is to observe everything with a sense of detached amusement. I don't always do that, but it serves you well to keep it in mind.”
“I think there needs to be a general consciousness raising among consumers. So many consumers aren't aware of the backstory. They see the end product in the supermarket but don't know all the steps that it took to get it there, who helped to get the food there.”
“I think you have to be respectful to the people who want to talk to you.”
“I'm really much more like Phil Potter from [the 1979 film] Starting Over. People do think I'm the Bandit [from Smokey and the Bandit ], and I'm a lot more serious than that.”
“Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work.”
“Children don’t heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew.”
“Conviction is a good motive, but a bad judge.”
“You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.”
“[I am not] the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.”
“I'm about what goes through people's minds. The stuff that people don't want to admit or face up to. The shows are about what's buried in people's psyches.”
“Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.”
“I always take the audience into account.”
“The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer and soak perpetually in conscious complacency.”
“I am a result of what has happened on this planet - how could I find the art to say that? I can't, and yet, I am drawn to it because of the enormity of it. That seems really important.”
“Observe with both friend and foe the ordinary rules of courtesy.”
“Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.”