John Sebastian Quotes
My father was invited to play on a television show when I was 17 or 18 that was an early equivalent of educational television, a Sunday afternoon kind of variety art show.
Quotes to Explore
-
Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.
-
Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
-
You need to have camaraderie in the clubhouse. Wherever you're working, be it a baseball team or at a business, you want to walk in there and say, 'Geez, it's great to be at work. Let's go get 'em,' as opposed to walking in there knowing there's going to be a commotion.
-
I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.
-
I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
-
Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.
-
What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
-
History is a race between education and catastrophe.
-
As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.
-
It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.
-
The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
-
'LazyTown' is on a mission to move the world to be a healthier place. When we get kids moving, we get their families moving. And when families move, we are one step closer to moving the world. Move the body, move the mind, every day.
-
I am a self-critical perfectionist.
-
There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.
-
Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
-
The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this.
-
From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.
-
I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.
-
I know a lot of people on the field - players, coaches, managers - are glad that I'm gone.
-
Real understanding does not come from what we learn in books; it comes from what we learn from love of nature, of music, of man. For only what is learned in that way is truly understood.
-
We're not looking for some sort of group hug from the party.
-
Thou art unseen, but yet I hear thy shrill delight.
-
Things like that become a blur - shot at some soundstage, somewhere - that's as much as I can remember.
-
My father was invited to play on a television show when I was 17 or 18 that was an early equivalent of educational television, a Sunday afternoon kind of variety art show.
