Caleb Followill Quotes

At the end of the day, we have to write music that makes us happy and the day that we stop loving what we do…we’ll quit.

Caleb Followill

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• I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.

  

  Randee Heller
  • Business
  • You
  • Know

• I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.

  

  Karen McCarthy
  • Best
  • Made
  • Did

• Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Long
  • May
  • Think

• I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Matter
  • Accept
  • Someone

• Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Why
  • She
  • Bad

• A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Work
  • May
  • You

• The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• Art is born of humiliation.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Art
  • Born
  • Humiliation

• Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around, but he carried it off so well.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • School
  • Uncle
  • Medical

• I don't think I've ever been haunted by a ghost, but I always joke with my fiance about the house we're living in right now. It seems to have something in it.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Think
  • House
  • Always

• I floated around in the department of biochemistry and learned some interesting things, and then I began to... I never wanted to work with a mentor because I always wanted to have my own reputation and be free to do what I wanted to do. So I worked with the weakest people in the department. Don't make that public.

  

  Irwin Rose
  • People
  • Work
  • Free

• I think more people in the mainstream, folks like Nancy Wilson and Luther Vandross, they have openly expressed their love for God, and when mainstream artists start expressing their love for God openly in their concerts and including gospel songs in their concert, and, you know, people started embracing it.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • People
  • God
  • Think

• The first record I spent five years writing and it was an amalgamation of all the things that happened in my life from the time I was fifteen to the time I was twenty.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Life
  • Time
  • Writing

• You can go ahead and break a law, and you can come to a sanctuary city, and they wouldn't enforce the laws.

  

  Jim Inhofe
  • Law
  • City

• When I do videos, it's just myself.

  

  Kian Lawley

• It is time for humanity to reset our spiritual compass from self-centeredness to other-centeredness.

  

  Bernice King
  • Time
  • Spiritual
  • Humanity

• I grew up watching stand-ups and thought it was so entertaining and unique - you didn't see that as a job description anywhere.

  

  Kevin Nealon
  • Up
  • Job
  • Unique

• It's a free country and I can keep my mouth shut whenever I want.

  

  James Van Der Beek
  • Country
  • Free

• I saw something in the store the other day that I don't understand: that peanut butter and jelly in the same jar. Is there a point to that? I mean, I'm lazy-but I wanna meet the guy who needs that. Some guy going, "You know, I could go for a sandwich-but, uh, I'm not gonna open two jars. I can't be opening and closing all kinds of jars. Cleaning, who knows how many knives!?"

  

  Brian Regan
  • Guy
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• I just felt something snap in my leg.

  

  Vince Neil Mötley Crüe
  • Leg
  • Snap

• Every inch of my writing career has been influenced by my screenwriting education. I was lucky enough to go to film school at USC, and I got a crash course in how to tell a story efficiently. I learned structure, pace, my style, how to know your audience, and most importantly, how to take criticism and edits properly.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Writing
  • School
  • Career

• Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Writing
  • Prose
  • Delicious

• At the end of the day, we have to write music that makes us happy and the day that we stop loving what we do…we’ll quit.

  

  Caleb Followill
  • Writing
  • Quitting