John Prine Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm mad, they say. I am temperamental and dizzy and disagreeable. Well, let them talk. I can take it. Only one person can hurt me. Her name is Ida Lupino.
-
I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.
-
In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
-
What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.
-
Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.
-
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
-
If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
-
If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.
-
I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
-
No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
-
The common thread in all my projects is 'girls being awesome.' Can we make that a genre?
-
The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing.
-
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
-
The developers, if they decide to move a tortoise, have to pay the long-term costs for enhancing the areas that take care of the tortoise, and it gives us the opportunity to manage an area that is going to be protected.
-
If there's one thing I hope people are certain of it's this: I'm looking out for YOU - the taxpayer.
-
I play the guitar when I want to relax. But to play the guitar, you cut the nails. So one day, I'll cut the nails off.
-
If anybody seeks your advice, offer right and sincere advice.
-
On Quora, you're not answering questions because you want to get points or because you have nothing else to do.
-
I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.
-
Americans will respect your beliefs if you just keep them private.
-
It's been a career filled with very low valleys and some wonderful, high peaks.
-
Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and use that money for human needs.
-
I still love making music. And I still love performing for my fans. I'd like to thank them for sticking with me through thick and thin.
-
In the Army, I was very good at avoiding my job!
