Russell Baker Quotes
The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.
Quotes to Explore
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I'd call my music rock but with pop hooks.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.
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I ran the Iditarod twice. I finished once. I came in 42nd or 43rd place out of 70 plus teams the first time, and I scratched 80 miles from Nome the second time. You can read about my experience in the race in my books 'Woodsong' and 'Winterdance.'
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The dream, alone, is of interest. What is life, without a dream?
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I don't take money seriously, so I can't keep any.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.
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I am really passionate about my career and my music and I am so lucky to be able to do what I do for a job, so for all the early morning starts and long days, I could never trade it all in.
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China was the worst place I've ever been in my life.
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Asia is the continent rhythm forgot. At best Asian music is off-brand American pop, like Sonny Bono in a karaoke bar. At worst Asian music sounds as if a truck full of wind chimes collided with a stack of empty oil drums during a birdcall contest.
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I think the biggest sacrifice I had to make was giving up time and missing out on things. Not going to college and getting the college experience. Or missing important holidays. All my time was spent in the studio.
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The belief that we are what the media says we are, what people perceive we are, is soon to be what we think we are. We are treated based on this warped perception. It is hard to get away from it.
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I had a great love affair in high school and let myself have that love affair and tried to keep it to myself.
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I met Cary Grant once, and I was absolutely star struck. I got his autograph.
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There are so many stereotypes of how you have to be as a black man, growing up in the community as a man.
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I didn't set out to be a singer. Actually, the earliest creative efforts I made were drawings copied from comics we got every week at the newsagent, or rearranging photos I cut out and pasted in scrapbooks.
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The thing I love about being a novelist is that with each project, you invent a new world. You approach it with a different set of aesthetic and structural ideas, and you grapple with a different series of problems in figuring out how to tell the story. And yet there are certain concerns that stay constant.
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Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
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Attention is what creates value. Artworks are made as well by how people interact with them - and therefore by what quality of interaction they can inspire.
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Who here wants to be a writer?' I asked. Everyone in the room raised his hand. 'Why the hell aren't you home writing?' I said, and left the stage.
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The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.
