John Raitt Quotes

If I can talk, I can sing.

John Raitt

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• The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but there are just as many facets of us as there are other cultures.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • American
  • Black
  • Culture

• One of the things I think is important about 'Watchmen' is that it have resonance within cinematic pop culture as well as superhero culture.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Important
  • Think
  • Culture

• However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Writing
  • May
  • Think

• 'Love Tattoo' I recorded without a record company. I'd gotten turned down by the record companies – they said they didn't get me, which is fine, I suppose.

  

  Imelda May
  • Me
  • Company
  • Record

• Women want to feel wanted. Men want to feel needed.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • Men
  • Women
  • Want

• When I was growing up, we had cats, dogs, guinea pigs, rabbits, goats, chickens - a whole menagerie.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• Most people aren't familiar enough with what actually goes on in professional wrestling to know just how badly women are treated in WWE narratives.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • People
  • Women
  • Professional

• More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Marriage
  • Bed
  • Legs

• Making art is not the matter of a moment, and nor is making an exhibition; curating follows art.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Art
  • Moment
  • Matter

• I like guitar. It just turned out that it's the instrument I learned to play. I have a lot of respect for it, and I'm learning more and more every day. For me, the classic band setup - guitars, drums, bass - will stay fresh forever. I don't know. I'm still into it.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Respect
  • Day
  • Learning

• At the core of my dad is, he has a very strong faith. He believes very firmly in loving God.

  

  Tagg Romney
  • God
  • Strong
  • Faith

• Regardless of theology or however you see life or relate to worshiping God, as an artist, my job is to tell the truth and then try to connect with these characters and people as honestly and deeply as possible.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• Islamization of Europe is an unavoidable consequence, indeed, an inevitability, once Europe ceased to reproduce itself. The descendants of the men who went out from Europe to conquer and Christianize the world have decided to leave the world. The culture of death triumphs, as the poor but fecund Muslims, expelled centuries ago, return to inherit the estate.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • Men
  • Death

• I've read the books. God is not a moderate. There's no place in the books where God says, 'You know, when you get to the New World and you develop your three branches of government and you have a civil society, you can just jettison all the barbarism I recommended in the first books.'

  

  Sam Harris
  • World
  • God
  • Society

• I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can … But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Soul

• Friendship's the wine of life; but friendship new(Not such was his) is neither strong nor pure.

  

  Edward Young
  • Life
  • Strong
  • Friendship

• I was living in a terrible time when people were being accused of being communists, and they attacked the movie industry, especially the writers. People couldn't work if they were on the blacklist. The studios banned them. It was the most onerous period in movie history. I don't think we have ever had a period so dark as that.

  

  Kirk Douglas
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• The band couldn't have happened anywhere else in the world but New York. That was the catalyst.

  

  Jan Hammer
  • World
  • Band

• Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing stays fixed... Cool things become warm, the warm grows cool; the moist dries, the parched becomes moist... It is in changing that things find repose.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Things
  • Changing
  • Abides

• The most difficult thing is the organization of people and the expression of your intentions. It's very easy to have a picture in your head and to imagine that you've told everybody about what you need.

  

  Neil Jordan
  • People
  • Picture
  • Organization

• If I am running 100 yards, I should be cut. Because then I am getting beat. I do not need to be doing that. I need to be running 20, 30, 40 yards as fast as I can over and over and over at optimal energy and efficiency and speed.

  

  Eric Weddle
  • Energy
  • Running

• I knew I was getting into one of the most illegal things in the world. It was the right thing to do.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • World
  • The Right Thing

• If I can talk, I can sing.

  

  John Raitt