Dave Alvin Quotes

There are two types of folk music: quiet folk music and loud folk music. I play both.

Dave Alvin

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• I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Music
  • Cool
  • Couple

• In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

  

  R. A. Butler
  • Running
  • Rest
  • Politics

• When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Movie

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • People
  • God
  • Why

• I don't have business with any politicians.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Business
  • Politicians
  • Any

• Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Goal
  • Gift
  • Adulthood

• I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Believe
  • Mind

• I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Running

• All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great modesty, and where nothing immodest is ever heard or seen.

  

  Xenophon
  • Up
  • Great
  • Men

• I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Trying
  • Loved
  • Show

• If I'm paying money to come to see you, you shouldn't look like everybody else in the crowd.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Money
  • Look
  • See

• My baseball career was a long, long initiation into a single secret: At the heart of all things is love.

  

  Sadaharu Oh
  • Long
  • Heart
  • Career

• Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in. In baseball or out, we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality - we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Believe

• Schooling is so important.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Important
  • Schooling

• It's a contract of connection to be in the same space and watch and listen to stories and be caught in them. When you're in a theater, your brain expands because somebody in the theater may do something or respond to something that you wouldn't have.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • May
  • Space
  • Brain

• If you can be who you are on camera, which is not easy, then I think you're going to be successful.

  

  Matt Lauer

• It's pretty funny to me when I hear people say, 'I write six songs every day,' or, 'I turn out a song a day.' I bet you that's a whole week of bad songs.

  

  Benji Hughes
  • People
  • Bad
  • Pretty

• Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Mean
  • Heaven
  • Winning

• I spent so many years with people saying, 'Hey, you're like America's boyfriend!'

  

  Luke Wilson
  • People
  • America
  • Boyfriend

• I don't wake up in the morning and say, 'Jeez, I feel great today. I think I'll write a song.' I mean, anything is more interesting to me than writing a song. It's like, 'I think I'd like to write a song... No, I guess I better go feed the cat first.' You know what I mean? It's like pulling teeth. I don't enjoy it a bit.

  

  Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead
  • Up
  • Great
  • Writing

• If you look at a lot of people's careers, the first couple of movies, usually, are the most embarrassing.

  

  Michael Ealy
  • People
  • Couple
  • Careers

• I discovered that the most interesting music of all was made by simply lining the loops in unison, and letting them slowly shift out of phase with other.

  

  Steve Reich
  • Music
  • Unison
  • Loops

• There are two types of folk music: quiet folk music and loud folk music. I play both.

  

  Dave Alvin
  • Music
  • Quiet
  • Folks