Country Joe McDonald Quotes

And it's one, two, three What are we fighting for Don't ask me, I don't give a damn. Next stop is Viet Nam.

Country Joe McDonald

• Stop
• Fighting
• Vietnam

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Always
  • Risk
  • Unknown

• I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Work
  • Important
  • Black

• There are some things that money can't buy: peace of mind, for starters, and lean muscle mass. Neither the Queen of England nor the founder of Microsoft can put in an order for either one.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Mind
  • Money
  • Peace

• I'm not the type of guy to go so deep with the concept songs, but there's deep thought in everything. Maybe it's not just a repetitive hook telling you what the song is about - you have to use your brain a little bit.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Guy
  • Song
  • Brain

• The difference between Tinted Windows and Hanson shows is a lot of just repertoire. Hanson has been a band for years - we have a lot of songs to pull from and it's a different dynamic - a common kind of thread. With Tinted Windows - it's kind of a little like 'hey, we're this new band.'

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Different
  • Band
  • New

• When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Work
  • Book
  • Lost

• Talent survives and remains while beauty is diluted.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Beauty
  • Talent
  • While

• Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Life
  • Important
  • Family

• Death, only, renders hope futile.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Hope
  • Death
  • Futile

• I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Read
  • Fiction
  • Newspaper

• I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Look
  • Say
  • Misbehave

• Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Good
  • Words
  • Sports

• For better or for worse, I just have to be on tour for some portion of the year. But it's not easy, you know. It's not easy on the people you love, and I understand when people look at this life and say this isn't sustainable.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Life
  • Know

• Every country in Europe needs immigrants for its economic survival.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Country
  • Survival
  • Europe

• Earlier in my career, I needed to be the writer, casting director, set designer, leading man, and producer. I've been eliminating a lot of those jobs. I'm an executive producer right now. I still get to pick the best screenplays.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Career

• There's something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden. In a way, I feel that time doesn't exist in LA. Sometimes I don't know if it's February or April or October, because you're always sitting outside on the same patio, and it's 70 degrees.

  

  Alexander Skarsgard
  • Time
  • June
  • April

• Every Motown act dressed classy, and we were clean-cut. Whenever you saw a Motown act, they were polished, and they knew how to treat people.

  

  Dennis Edwards The Temptations
  • People
  • Classy

• I would like to think that in America, as time goes on, you gain freedom, not lose freedom.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Time
  • America
  • Freedom

• 'SNL' is really hard to do when you're single and living alone. And then it's pretty tough when you're married, because you don't see your spouse.

  

  Bill Hader
  • Pretty
  • Alone
  • Single

• When you're talking about your own music every day, listening to bands, going to festivals, you can kind of lose sight of your initial connection with music. Instrumental music - especially jazz - helps me refocus.

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Music
  • Listening
  • Connection

• Then the early punk rock period with Television and the Ramones. That's what I loved- that's what I was listening to immediately prior to when I started to play.

  

  Arto Lindsay
  • Rock
  • Listening
  • Period

• When making decisions about people, stop confusing experience with evidence. Just as owning a car doesn't make you an expert on engines, having a brain doesn't mean you understand psychology.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Experience
  • Stop

• Surely no issue unites us more than our appreciation for our military personnel who are bringing aid to devastated countries, defending us against terrorism, and fighting to make a free election possible in Iraq.

  

  Christine Gregoire
  • Free
  • Fighting
  • Military

• And it's one, two, three What are we fighting for Don't ask me, I don't give a damn. Next stop is Viet Nam.

  

  Country Joe McDonald
  • Stop
  • Fighting
  • Vietnam