John Prine Quotes

Howie Epstein was a kind, patient, and extremely talented musician. He took two years out of his life and dedicated his undivided attention to the making of two of my records. Those records changed my life thanks to Howie.

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• Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us... Self-esteem is the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the requirements of life.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Powerful

• To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

  

  Ouida
  • Kind
  • Always
  • Innocence

• Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.

  

  E. Franklin Frazier
  • Life
  • Church
  • Failure

• If someone saves your life, you develop a brotherhood, no matter what your race.

  

  Omar Epps
  • Life
  • Race
  • Brotherhood

• Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters that somehow exist in the real world.

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
  • Life
  • World
  • Real

• In the '50s and '60s, the life of a gay man was a secret. Homosexuality was illegal, so you didn't draw attention to yourself.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Man
  • Attention

• Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Life
  • Women
  • Me

• I have always been interested in theater, as an actor and as someone who looks upon theater - at the risk of sounding pretentious - as an icon by which we measure society... My life has been in the theater to an extent. It's only an extension to write, direct, produce, whatever.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Life
  • Society
  • Risk

• And I never thought this life was possible,You're the yellow bird that I've been waiting for.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Life
  • Waiting
  • Bird

• That's part of the reason Rex drafted me, because I value this job. It's my life. If somebody wanted to take that away from me, it's personal.

  

  Mark Sanchez
  • Life
  • Job
  • Value

• I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them.

  

  Sting The Police
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• I've been fortunate to be short my entire life. There's only one position I've ever had to play, and that's point guard. So I've always had to be that leader. And that was my job: you know, to talk.

  

  Chris Paul
  • Life
  • Job

• I prize my seamstress, I value my copyist; but my cook, who knows well how to prepare the food to sustain life, and nourish brain, bone, and muscle, fills the most important place among the helpers in my family.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • Life
  • Important
  • Family

• All my life, since I was 16, I've been wondering where that next job was gonna come from.

  

  Jerry Orbach
  • Life
  • Job

• I want to be ripped apart by music. I want it to be something that feeds and replenishes, or that totally sucks the life out of you. I want to be dashed against the rocks.

  

  Jeff Buckley
  • Life
  • Music

• I have been on the receiving end of many blessings in my life, few as great as having known George and Barbara Bush.

  

  Christopher Buckley
  • Life
  • Great

• It's a life-changing thing to be in a position of needing help and being so lucky as to get it.

  

  Maura Tierney
  • Life
  • Help

• Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • Art
  • Painting
  • Chaos

• To my surprise, I have an Emmy nomination, and I have never even been to the Emmys! So it's like I am Cinderella. But actually having thought about it, I am Cinder-elder!

  

  Randee Heller
  • Cinderella
  • Emmy

• Beauty is in the character of a person. It's about having an interesting face and about what's inside. Anyone can take a good picture.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • Good
  • Character
  • Interesting

• I find it's nice when I can be a listener and absorb things coming at me. It's important, especially for me, when so much of my job is about putting things out into the world. So those quiet moments are rejuvenating.

  

  Phillipa Soo
  • World
  • Important
  • Job

• The act of contributing to the lives of others is its own reward. A servant's heart is a greater motivator than financial gain.

  

  Thomas Kinkade
  • Rewards
  • Gains
  • Servant

• Howie Epstein was a kind, patient, and extremely talented musician. He took two years out of his life and dedicated his undivided attention to the making of two of my records. Those records changed my life thanks to Howie.

  

  John Prine
  • Life
  • Attention
  • Kind