Gary Clark Jr. Quotes

Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven.

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• Some things are so tragic that you don't know what's funny in it, and some things are so ridiculous you don't know if it's worth talking about it.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Funny
  • Know
  • Talking

• Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.

  

  E. Franklin Frazier
  • Education
  • Inspiration
  • Information

• Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.

  

  Barney Oliver
  • Science
  • Earth
  • Moon

• Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Truth
  • Passion
  • Laugh

• I enjoy mediation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two cultures or two thoughts. We're always trying to reach, trying to expand something.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Trying
  • Thoughts
  • Enjoy

• Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Approach
  • Suit
  • Low-Key

• The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Prayer
  • Something
  • Whole

• Many of the wars we see around the world start as domestic conflicts that are fueled by external forces and powers. My view is that we can help peace if we help communities transform from the inside, on their own terms.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • World
  • Help
  • Peace

• I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Win
  • Fight
  • Just

• My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Death
  • Penalty

• Twitter should ban my mother.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Mother
  • Should
  • Twitter

• I learned from an early age that my heritage, my love for people, and my desire to be a vehicle that can be used through my voice, that my expressions and actions can transport a person to experience a scene from the past, present and future.

  

  Francesco Quinn
  • People
  • Experience
  • Future

• Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Couple

• Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Time
  • Today
  • Beautiful

• I don't look like a model, but you have to work with what you got.

  

  Karyn Parsons
  • Work
  • You
  • Model

• Today the arts exist in isolation, from which they can be rescued only through the conscious, cooperative effort of all craftsmen. Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Character
  • Today
  • Effort

• Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • Money
  • Star
  • Box

• I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • World
  • Long
  • Book

• It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Characters

• As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Music
  • Me
  • Start

• Be gentle, kind and beautiful, yet firm and strong, both mentally and physically.

  

  Keiko Fukuda
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Strong

• I am not suggesting that just by taking the Metro, I will save billions. But I hope others will follow.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Save
  • Billions
  • Metro

• The only failures are those who fail to try.

  

  Lester B. Pearson
  • Try
  • Fail
  • Failures

• Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Start
  • Being
  • Aggressive