Jason Isbell Quotes
I try to make statements that aren't broad because that doesn't make for good writing. I don't get commentary as my job, because I'm not very good at that. The way I do it is by writing songs, and I have to be small; I have to make the stories a bit personal.
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Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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I am not honest.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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I have never Twittered or Tweeted or even Chirped.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions.
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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If an alien with an accounting degree touched down in America, it might conclude that we're a weird cult that spends 11 months living frugally and four crazy weeks buying tons of stuff we don't need. It wouldn't be entirely wrong, either.
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Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.
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We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.
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Love is so unconditional; love liberates; love is the reason why I do what I do, and so I think it is the greatest gift we have.
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Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
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You like a woman, she's got kids, it's a package. You can't just go in one-sided.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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Variety is the soul of pleasure.
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As a boy Id often spend my days biking on riverbeds and arroyos and come home exhausted. I realize now how much I took for granted having the natural world so close at hand. It wasnt until I moved away, first to New York and then to Los Angeles, that I realized how much I missed the outdoors.
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Howie Greenfield and I started writing music when I was 13 and he was 16. We lived in the same building.
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Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.
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I don't mind my work being a record of the time it was written in.
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I try to make statements that aren't broad because that doesn't make for good writing. I don't get commentary as my job, because I'm not very good at that. The way I do it is by writing songs, and I have to be small; I have to make the stories a bit personal.
