Paul Westerberg Quotes
Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing.
Quotes to Explore
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It's a massive consumer frustration around the world about how long they have to wait after the U.S. to see television shows and movies. In the U.S., there's the frustration of having to wait a year to watch a movie in the format that you choose.
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I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I'd like to preserve some of that.
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There are some things that money can't buy: peace of mind, for starters, and lean muscle mass. Neither the Queen of England nor the founder of Microsoft can put in an order for either one.
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We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.
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The job as a coach is difficult.
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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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I choose to focus on the positive.
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My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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There is too much employer-employee relationship in America. I wish the musicians would feel that many decisions have to do with them and not delegate everything to management or to the board or to the committee. This is why you get a sense of pride in some of the European orchestras: because they are part of the decision-making.
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I just have an inability to lie.
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We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
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Whenever offers come my way, if I connect with it, then I am completely open to it.
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Governments can err, presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that Divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted on different scales. Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
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There was a brief silence in which the distant echo of Hagrid smashing down a wooden front door seemed to reverberate through the intervening years.
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I'm the kind of guy who really likes a challenge. It's more rewarding.
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One may well use one’s head even though one is in love. Someone has said that one cannot prevent lightening from striking – but one may prevent the whole town from burning down.
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Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing.
