Bill Vaughan Quotes

Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request. One must seem to hear the unreasonable demands of the petulant, unmoved, and the tedious details of the dull, untired. That is the least price that a man must pay for a high station.

Bill Vaughan

Quotes to Explore

Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.

Kate Voegele
- Time
- Writing
- School
We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.

T. J. Miller
- Broken
- Nation
- Divided
We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that's large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can't solve.

Naveen Jain
- World
- Long
- Change
History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

E. L. Doctorow
- People
- Why
- History
One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.

A. B. Yehoshua
- Desire
- Stupid
- Dreams
Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.

Page McConnell