Bert Jansch Quotes

Im not one for showing off. But I guess my guitar-playing sticks out.

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• My brain is like a hard drive. Once you start adding new information, you start cutting off old information.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Brain
  • Start
  • Cutting

• The American Dream is really money.

  

  Jill Robinson
  • Money
  • American
  • Dream

• The World Bank adjusts its poverty estimates for differences in prices across countries, but it ignores differences in needs.

  

  Angus Deaton
  • World
  • Poverty

• One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.

  

  James Joyce
  • Great

• A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Trouble
  • Creature
  • Remembering

• Most of his books are geared for teenagers. Kids really love reading his stuff. He's been called the speaker and author of the ADD generation. He definitely keeps kids' attention and they just love him.

  

  Steve Howe Yes
  • Kids
  • Reading
  • Books

• Be strong enough to say this to yourself - Sins were mine, and so shall I have to pay for it.

  

  Anamika Mishra
  • Say
  • Pay
  • Sins

• Ultimately, the dollars will have to come from television. Will it come from television tomorrow, I don't know.

  

  Dawn Ostroff
  • Knows
  • Television
  • Tomorrow

• You're always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that's maybe even too weird for your own taste. In my case it's kind of weird because I started out being known more for ambient things and ambiguous music, but what's experimental for me is the more traditional structure. For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.

  

  Bradford Cox
  • Musician
  • Taste
  • Traditional

• I can't say there's a job that I hated. But you know what happens, is sometimes you say, "I'm smarter than my boss." Sometimes you may feel that somebody's tellin' you what to do and bossin' you around, and you're like, "I'm a hundred times smarter than you," and even if I'm not, I would feel that way anyway.

  

  Cam'ron
  • Sometimes
  • Boss
  • Hated

• When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back up tapes and instruments.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Up
  • Doing
  • Harmony

• The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Men
  • May
  • Hope

• True Faith’ ended up being a big song for us, no doubt about it. The title I got from a book I was reading at the time, James A. Michener’s Texas, which talked about Catholicism being the only ‘True Faith’. Rob liked that. Here’s a little-known fact: Barney and I were the only two Protestants at Factory; nearly all the rest were Catholics. Read into that what you will.

  

  Peter Hook New Order
  • Book
  • Read
  • Catholicism

• Watching people party is cool, but I don't love watching people get super-duper trashed and annoying. I feel protected behind my booth - away from the madness, but a part of it too.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • People
  • Party
  • Annoying

• Maybe it's just, I've always been to the less traveled places, in any topic, whether it's history, I always like to just choose the most obscure topic. And I don't know why I have that impulse. I can't really explain it but I've been doing that since I was a little kid.

  

  Andrew Bird
  • Why
  • History

• We gave up everything just to sit at your table.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Table
  • Gave Up

• I keep a lot of things inside. I don't like showing too much emotion. Early in the minor leagues, they wanted me to show more emotion, but it wasn't me.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Things
  • Emotion
  • Inside

• Im not one for showing off. But I guess my guitar-playing sticks out.

  

  Bert Jansch
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  • Guitar Playing