Johnny Van Zant Quotes

I just love going out and playing my brother's songs.

Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd

• Brother
• Songs
• Playing

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I like films to be complete in their written form.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Like
  • Form
  • Complete

• Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Ideas
  • Write
  • More

• I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Learning
  • Dance
  • Stars

• I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Women
  • She
  • Fun

• I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Work
  • Position
  • Redesign

• A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Career
  • You
  • Yourself

• It doesn't sound too good to say I am the son of a landowner, so let us rather say I am the grandson of exploited Galician peasants.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Son
  • Grandson
  • Landowner

• All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Responsibility

• I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Good
  • God
  • Bad

• If I was a condiment, I'm gonna go ahead and say I would be Sriracha, because I go well with other things. I'm too much for some people, and hipsters like me.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • People
  • Say
  • Ahead

• There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Truth
  • Man
  • Down

• With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.

  

  Lana Wachowski
  • Place
  • Start
  • Expectations

• In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.

  

  Hack Wilson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Advice

• In the main the Academy helped to frame only laws of an economic or social nature, since owing to the development of the totalitarian regime it became more and more impossible to cooperate in other spheres.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Nature
  • Impossible
  • Laws

• Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Children
  • Future
  • Responsibility

• Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Poetry
  • Language
  • Feelings

• To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him.

  

  Saint Basil
  • God
  • Truth
  • Hope

• In an asana, the mind has to reach inside the body to find a quiet space until a point comes where perfect balance is felt.

  

  Geeta Iyengar
  • Mind
  • Body
  • Balance

• As a little girl I loved the thought of playing dress-up and getting ready.

  

  Denise Richards
  • Up
  • Girl

• Even in my age now, I'm the same as before and just as fearful I only learn how to pretend to be strong.

  

  Ayumi Hamasaki
  • Age
  • Strong
  • Fearful

• I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in any form of supernaturalism—religion, spiritualism, transcendentalism, metempsychosis, or immortality.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Atheist
  • Atheism
  • Psychosis

• My feeling is that, and I've been writing about my family over the years, although it might make them feel uncomfortable, people generally like to be written about. If I've written a song about the family, they enjoy being mentioned in the songs. Nobody's confronted me and said 'don't write any songs about me.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • People
  • Writing
  • Family

• I just love going out and playing my brother's songs.

  

  Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Brother
  • Songs
  • Playing