Steve Capus (Stephen Allan "Steve" Capus) Quotes

I drive my family nuts because when I watch something on TV, I'm likely to watch it with a bass guitar. But I don't plug it in!

Steve Capus

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• When all your stuff gets smashed, everybody gives you new stuff. And when you've been playing the same guitar since you were like 12, that's a lot like dancing with somebody else's wife.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Wife
  • Same
  • Guitar

• Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • People
  • Money
  • Why

• HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories. We're going to start with the first novel, 'The Long Fall.'

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Long
  • Fall
  • Start

• I didn't watch T.V. from the time I was 18 'til my mid-30s. And then I got a T.V. to watch 'The Sopranos.' I realized, 'Oh, T.V. is really interesting.'

  

  Ira Glass
  • Time
  • Interesting
  • Watch

• I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Think
  • Amazing
  • Television

• It's a really weird thing, modern divorce. I found out I was getting divorced on television. That was kind of weird.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Kind
  • Weird
  • Television

• I don't watch a lot of T.V. I only watch things via Netflix, so I only watch the things that I'm choosing to watch.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Things
  • Watch
  • Netflix

• Like, when I write a song, the song comes first before production. Everything is written on an acoustic guitar so you can strip away everything from it and have it be equally as entertaining and good without the bells and whistles.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Good
  • Song
  • Guitar

• I can watch films and say how technically beautiful they are, but I'm not impressed by any technicality.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Beautiful
  • Say
  • Watch

• I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that's what Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers played. Then I got into the really raw blues of Hound Dog Taylor and started on electric guitar.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Family
  • Dog
  • Guitar

• As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Up
  • Long
  • Remember

• I played a lot of keyboards, but I really wanted to produce the sound that was in my head that I was trying to emulate on the keys. I wanted to do it for real. And it makes me look at the keys in a different way. So it's like I'm looking at the guitar and bass more like meat and potatoes and keys like coloring over top of it, you know.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Me
  • Guitar
  • Played

• It wasn't until I was 18, when I was graduating high school, that I went and bought a guitar on a whim.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • School
  • High
  • Guitar

• A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Time
  • You
  • Guitar

• The first song I learned on the guitar was a Kenny Chesney song called 'What I Need to Do'; it was just an easy song to play... and it was really cool to see that come full-circle a few years later and have him record a song that I was part of.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Song
  • Cool
  • Guitar

• Everybody asks me what it was like to be in my underwear for my network television debut.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Me
  • Like
  • Television

• There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.

  

  Jack Gould
  • Always
  • Television
  • Worst

• My son Gautham usually doesn't watch my films. But he watched 'Srimanthudu' in the theatre.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Son
  • Theatre
  • Watch

• Yeah, I had done a lot of television in the '60s and I was dying to get into the movies. I was just sure I should be in the movies.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Done
  • Movies
  • Dying

• I do not think he [Reagan] put names and faces together but for a small group of people. There were a few, perhaps half a dozen reporters, that Reagan recognized, including my colleague Lou Cannon, and some from television and the wire services. The rest of us were faces.

  

  David E. Hoffman
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Together

• I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from books – but you do your own learning in your own way.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Want
  • Way
  • Learning

• Sometimes even when the book is over I don't know who's good and who's bad. It's really more interesting, I think, to write about gray characters than it is to write about black and white.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Good
  • Book
  • Bad

• Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Work
  • Never
  • Moving On

• I drive my family nuts because when I watch something on TV, I'm likely to watch it with a bass guitar. But I don't plug it in!

  

  Steve Capus
  • Television
  • Guitar
  • Watch