Uncle Kracker (Matthew Shafer) Quotes

Well, it's great that critics are comparing me to Eminem, and not Vanilla Ice.

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• I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the Stones pumping.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Music
  • Parents
  • Day

• I think that any sort of fantasy or sci fi that is grounded in something that could ostensibly be real - 'Jurassic Park' being my favorite example - is that much more prescient because it means that much more. Maybe one day, what if?

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Real
  • Think
  • Day

• Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.

  

  Jack Welch
  • King
  • Competition
  • Communication

• All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Heart
  • Path
  • Same

• I believe in doing what I am best at.

  

  N. T. Rama Rao, Jr.
  • Believe
  • Best

• Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Human

• As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.

  

  Adam Jones
  • True
  • Three
  • Grunge

• The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.

  

  F. L. Lucas
  • Hope
  • Future
  • See

• When you get the respect of the fans, it's very hard not to be happy.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Happy
  • Respect
  • Be Happy

• What makes a fulfilling relationship or fulfilling life is not simply found in another. It's found in a group of others.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Life
  • Relationship
  • Group

• I am a woman above everything else.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Woman

• Im gonna be something one of these days.

  

  Patsy Cline
  • Something
  • Days

• The Stones also still have a huge following. Mick Jagger leaps around like a crazy dude. And Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts are playing great too.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Great
  • Crazy
  • Following

• It's not a movie about, 'My dad and I, we hated each other and then we came to know that we loved each other.' No. I loved my dad. He was a great guy. I just didn't know him as an adult.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Great
  • Movie
  • Guy

• Even logical positivists are capable of love.

  

  Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer
  • Capable
  • Logical

• You must be as joyful when you fail again and again as you are joyful when you succeed. It is often when you fail that you move toward the goal without being aware of it. You must feel joy even when you have not fully succeeded but only moved toward achievement of your goal.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Joy
  • Moving
  • Goal

• I feel like I've got so much to do, from a music perspective. Jamie's done his record and traveled around the world with it. Romy did all those writing sessions. I would love to do what Romy's done and experience that other side of the pop machine. It sounds terrifying and, at times, a little bit soulless. That's a real pet peeve of mine, when people talk about songwriting in a cynical way. But having said that I still want to do it, just to know what it's like.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• I'm saying, Come on, the global warming thing? How did the ice melt during the ice ages? Was the dinosaurs driving SUVs around back then?

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Driving
  • Saying
  • Ice

• I scored a movie called 'Endangered Species'. I worked on another movie called 'Staying Alive'. A German film called 'Fire and Ice'.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Movie
  • Fire
  • Alive

• I never know who's influencing me at any time. I mean, I can take a play by Brecht and adapt it, I'm consciously adapting that play, or, as I've done with the Greek classics, Euripides and Oedipus, and I'm consciously adapting that play. Whether it influences me or not, I think it's the critics, the analysts who have to decide that. Me, I don't feel that I'm under the influence of any such sources.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Done
  • Influence
  • Greek

• Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners.

  

  Archibald Alexander
  • World
  • Jesus
  • Jesus Christ

• Well, it's great that critics are comparing me to Eminem, and not Vanilla Ice.

  

  Uncle Kracker
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