Dave Douglas Quotes
I'm a jazz musician by education and vocation, but I don't think jazz should [ dictate] what I want to do.
Quotes to Explore
-
My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.
-
I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super '60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me.
-
My whole reason for creating a network is literally to bring little pieces of light. It's to continue to spread little pieces of light in the world, to illuminate the possibility of the human spirit.
-
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
-
I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
-
Pre-history tells us that our species used to be a hunter-gatherer society. This means that the job of raising a family was split 50-50 between the men and the women - the man's 50 percent share was to sit in the woods with a sharp stick, waiting for something to hunt to wander by, and the woman's 50 percent was to do everything else.
-
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
-
Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.
-
It is a fact not to be disputed, that the aristocracy have not 'progressed ' in proportion to the other classes. A young nobleman of the present day has not a better education than his ancestor in the time of Elizabeth.
-
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be 'damned if you do, and damned if you don't.'
-
The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.
-
My one thing is respect. I don't care about anything else. You should respect everyone around you - the people who work for you, peers. Be classy.
-
If I were a carpenter, I'd find a way to empower using that skill. I'm using as much as God has given - my mind, my voice, my heart, my art forms. This is the highest form of expression on the planet from God, to me, to you.
-
We really think of Bitcoin as a global, interoperable payment network instead of a store of value.
-
No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
-
I work from a deep sense of insecurity. I have the belief, and I can't shake it, that there are endless reasons to turn the channel. There are hundreds of channels and entirely other things to do besides TV. And if you make a bad television show there's no reason for the audience to come back the following week.
-
I loved to read, and if I could've been a professional reader, that's probably what I would've wanted to be!
-
I want to live 50 more years. I'm 33 years old... and I want to live to at least be 80 and see my kids grow up and see my grandkids. That's important to me.
-
I did not grow up around computers, so technology was not a tool used every day in my household. I was drawn to computer science due to the creative nature of programming and the technology focus.
-
Back, you know, a few generations ago, people didn't have a way to share information and express their opinions efficiently to a lot of people. But now they do. Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they're thinking and have their voice be heard.
-
A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.
-
You have to make an effort to always look at the good side, always think about the good things. Then you've got nothing to be afraid of. If something bad comes up, you do more thinking at that point.
-
Sometimes when I play that old six-string, I think about you, wonder what went wrong.
-
I'm a jazz musician by education and vocation, but I don't think jazz should [ dictate] what I want to do.
