Bryan Lee O'Malley Quotes
I do get the sense sometimes that if I draw things too nice, maybe I won't be indie-rock enough anymore.
Quotes to Explore
-
Where you record is very important. It can't be too nice, it can't be too expensive, it can't have a view to an ocean or a field.
-
I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.
-
I love England from head to toe. I love the weather, the people. I was there in the summer and it was nice. The people are so groovy.
-
If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.
-
I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
-
Nice girls aren't always what they seem.
-
'School of Rock' was just once in a lifetime things; I want to be a doctor, actually. I'd go an do the sequel if they asked me to.
-
Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.
-
As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.
-
The day after I had my licence to drive, I made Paris/Nice at 230 km/hour.
-
Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance.
-
It's real nice and exciting for me to break the records, but it's more exciting for me to be on a winning team.
-
It's nice to stay up nights worrying about the material, and not about the investors who gave you $10 million to do your musical.
-
I enjoy celebrating Valentine's Day. It's a nice way to say you're thinking about your family, someone special, or dear friends.
-
Of course, my family helped me, my brothers helped me, but after I set up my own office I had to really help myself. Some people seem to think I had an oil well in my garden! It's a nice idea but not true.
-
I think some days you should do a cartoon that is absolutely just for the laugh, and some days you should do a cartoon that just punches the reader right in the stomach. It's kind of nice to mix it up.
-
For nighttime or for an event, I'm all about the nice heel. Something that's still walkable but definitely very elegant.
-
The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.
-
I think a lot of people feel that they are just not listened to, and that the politicians in Washington are just playing games with each other and forgetting about their constituents.
-
I'm crazy about Diane Von Furstenberg. It's a relationship that's very different; I don't see Diane a lot. So when I saw the article in New York magazine she looked so beautiful and it was talking about her work, too. She set up the interview and it was happening. That's different than someone writing a book about you who you've never met.
-
I don't see a day when teenagers don't read. They are very enthusiastic. That is so inspiring to me.
-
I had a migraine for about seven or eight straight days, and I was unable to sleep most nights.
-
I do get the sense sometimes that if I draw things too nice, maybe I won't be indie-rock enough anymore.
