John Prine Quotes

People keep inventing all these new machines, and producers and recording engineers keep wanting to use them.

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• I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Song
  • Never
  • Pressure

• The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.

  

  Lamar S. Smith
  • Social
  • Court
  • Supreme Court

• I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Death
  • Scared
  • Ninja

• Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Why

• You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Reality
  • You
  • Find

• I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.

  

  Vince Cable
  • People
  • Trying
  • Daily

• My father taught me many important giving lessons, but two stand out. First, always give as much as you possibly can. And second, give equally from among your resources - your time, your mind and your capital. These are principles I live by.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Time
  • Important
  • Live

• Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

  

  Pamela Hansford Johnson
  • Only
  • Saints
  • Acceptable

• As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Food
  • Control
  • Living

• I did not come to NASA to make history.

  

  Sally Ride
  • History
  • Did
  • NASA

• You have to understand that I'm not just some guy who voices characters in animated movie and TV shows.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Movie
  • Guy
  • You

• Writers aren't in competition with one another. It isn't a zero sum game. If you have a good book, a good cover, a good product description, and a low price, you can sell well.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Good
  • Book
  • Game

• Actually, there was another band where we were three girls, around '84 when I met John Zorn, called Sunset Chorus. It was just bass and drums and guitar- we didn't make any records but we played a lot of different clubs in New York.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Different
  • Band
  • New York

• It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • She
  • Hope
  • Death

• Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.

  

  Mae West
  • Black
  • Space
  • Personality

• If everyone were a good person, it'd obviously be a better world.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • World
  • Good
  • Good Person

• Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.

  

  Caleb Carr
  • Job
  • True
  • Friend

• Young people want you to be real with them.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Real
  • Want

• I don't want to be a commentator of my own work. If you've written the story, you've said what you want to say.

  

  David Means
  • Work

• I don't do so much acting work now, as there aren't the parts except for 'Tango'. So if I didn't have the cabaret work, I don't know what I would be doing.

  

  Anne Reid
  • Work

• I was never really a virtuoso guitar player per se.

  

  Mick Jones Foreigner
  • Player

• I know that I need honesty from the people I interview. I also know that the truth is more interesting than made up stuff, and also, people don't connect with you if you're not honest.

  

  Neil Strauss
  • People
  • Up
  • Truth

• In the beginning [of my career] I definitely felt a responsibility because I was representing a bunch of people [Sri lankans] who never got represented before. I felt this responsibility to correct that situation, to be like, "Look, you can't discriminate against refugees and Muslim people and blah, blah, blah . . ."

  

  M.I.A.
  • People
  • Career
  • Responsibility

• People keep inventing all these new machines, and producers and recording engineers keep wanting to use them.

  

  John Prine
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