Carl Reiner Quotes
I'm 83 years old. Rock music I understand. Rap music I'm just about to understand. But you guys I will never understand. What were you as kids?
Quotes to Explore
-
And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music, and I make programs.
-
I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.
-
I liked that music was a window into a world with a lot of unpredictability and chaos; it was almost diametrically opposed to my very regimented day-to-day living.
-
Appropriate assessments are a crucial part of effectively educating students. But they only measure a narrow segment of what kids need to learn.
-
I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.
-
Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
-
I remember I heard it in an interview with Michael Jackson one day, saying the art is gone, everybody makes records just to make a record. See, I always want the artist that try to build a whole body of music on one album, so you can enjoy it. So you could say, 'I went with him here, I went with him here.'
-
The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.
-
My wife and I have a tradition of popcorn and videos with our kids on Friday evenings.
-
I've always been a really really big Sheryl Crow fan. I just respect what she does in a way that she just remains true to her music and sort of has just been real. She isn't trying too hard ever.
-
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
-
Like many other kids, I liked watching anime.
-
Anyone who still supports George Bush would still let Michael Jackson babysit their kids.
-
I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.
-
My sound is, at its core, a mix of things. Definitely an imperfect mix, but one that incorporates elements of the music I love - a bit of indie rock, super rhythmic rapping, and lots of synths.
-
I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.
-
It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.'
-
More than 200,000 kids have had their lives transformed by ARK. I use that word properly.
-
Johnny Cash's legacy, I think if it was one word, it would be 'integrity.' He was the original wild man and grew from that guy that was doing all the crazy things that you read that rock n' rollers do to being someone who was like the father of our country, you know. He was a guest at the White House. He was Billy Graham's friend.
-
Music is so clearly a commodity now. At one point, maybe 20 years ago, there were still some rumblings about keeping the really sacred American popular music out of the hands of corporate advertisers. And those walls have come down, but now I think the logical reaction to that is that you just start making your own music.
-
Our focus needs to be on freeing dissidents and continuing to support the opposition movement within Cuba - not rewarding Castro and subsidizing and strengthening his totalitarian regime.
-
I don't think I was considered to be a cabaret singer because I didn't have patter that was written.
-
My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business.
-
I'm 83 years old. Rock music I understand. Rap music I'm just about to understand. But you guys I will never understand. What were you as kids?
