Jonny Buckland Quotes
He's mellowed out a bit. Now he has something else to be stressed about instead of just the band.
Quotes to Explore
-
Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
-
Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
-
I hate to hear 'Less is more.' It's a crock of crap.
-
I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
-
I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
-
One can't live with a child of Holocaust survivors without absorbing some of the same sensibilities that her parents transmitted to her as a young girl. It is an unspoken dread, a sense of fragility, an anxious anticipation of unseen horrors.
-
Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
-
I always say, dare to struggle, dare to grin.
-
The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
-
If there was a way to discourage trash constitutionally, I would sure as heck take a hard look at it. I don't think there is. So I don't think there's a choice here.
-
Like so many poor Ilokanos, my grandparents left their village, for it could no longer sustain them. The Ilocos is a narrow coastal plain where, so often, the mountain drops to the sea. Land hunger had always afflicted the Ilokanos and made them migratory.
-
I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.
-
As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.
-
When you go see a good DJ, you'll know it, man - you'll know it in your bones. Between the guy who's phoning it in and the guy who's obsessively working it to give you the best show of his life.
-
My mother is going to get earrings of my head. Some will be dipped in silver, some will be dipped in gold, and I will hand them out to everyone I know.
-
All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.
-
I've forgotten more about bad putting than all the lousy putters in the firmament combined. My mind has been twisted into an incurable, disturbing venue of bad speed and inadequate line. I just want to go out and not feel like I'm putting a Rubik's Cube with a flimsy piece of rope.
-
To have survived in radio for 30 years is pretty remarkable. Even more remarkable is to have been able to do it in the same market I've lived in my whole life.
-
One of my mottos not only just in skating but in life in general and I try to enforce it as well, is like no regrets and just like going for it.
-
It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation, that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion; and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.
-
I see myself a humble man, and I tell you I have no ambitions to be president.
-
It's been a long struggle. But we've made huge progress. I mean, when I started at Berkeley, women weren't allowed to be part of the band. No women were allowed into the male faculty club. I mean, I was there. I remember that! The worlds were so divided. So the change has been huge.
-
With me and Bill... I think we started out with $15 apiece and split the other $20 between the band.
-
He's mellowed out a bit. Now he has something else to be stressed about instead of just the band.
