John Prine Quotes

My first Grammy nomination? I was 24 - I was nominated for best new artist of the year.

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• Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all 'not of blood'. You don't get it through the blood stream, through heredity. Your parents can give you much, but they cannot give you this.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Parents
  • Blood
  • Birth

• The life of an actor is never one to get comfortable.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Life
  • Never
  • Actor

• I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Up
  • Players
  • Other

• The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Mind
  • Poetry
  • End

• Modeling has always played off my D.J.-ing, but it is a fun supplement.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • Fun
  • Always
  • Modeling

• Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

  

  Harold W. Dodds
  • Best
  • Force
  • Insecurity

• When I was in Van Halen I was hitting notes that were out of my range. I never went for those registers before until Eddie pulled it out of me.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Me
  • Never
  • Notes

• A great byproduct of a TV show, movie, or play is when it can act as a catalyst for someone.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Great
  • Movie
  • Play

• Not that I want everything right now; but I do want everything.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Want
  • Everything
  • Now

• To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Important
  • Failure
  • Achieve

• We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Live
  • Age
  • Knowledge

• Hospitals are about healing.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Healing
  • About
  • Hospitals

• Nanotechnology is an idea that most people simply didn't believe.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • People
  • Believe
  • Idea

• I think every woman in their life wants to give a good face smack.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Life
  • Good
  • Woman

• Every time there's an election, people start to criticize China.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Time
  • Election

• Chelsea have made a good investment for me, but I did not put any pressure on them.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Me
  • Pressure

• In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Hope
  • Change
  • Politics

• Remember, while the work can sometimes appear to be simple to a viewer, the ability to perform expertly, consistently, precisely, over and over again, under pressure and on demand is what's needed.

  

  Randy West
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Simple

• I want to say 'I Shot The Police' but the government would have made a fuss so I said 'I Shot The Sheriff' insteadbut it's the same idea: justice.

  

  Bob Marley
  • Government
  • Justice
  • Idea

• The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.

  

  Aaron Burr
  • Life
  • Business
  • My Life

• I watched John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers play it acoustically at their gig at the MEN Arena. I think I can safely say that, of the 19,000 people there, 18,950 didn’t know what it was—but I did, and it brought a tear to my eye, definitely. Monster bass line. A bass line that every bass player dreams of and I got it, so thank you.

  

  Peter Hook New Order
  • Dreams
  • Tear
  • Bass Line

• No fate holds more splendour for an artist, than the one which greets his effort with such enthousiasm!

  

  Carl Maria von Weber
  • Artist
  • Effort
  • Fate

• Remember He is the artist and you are the picture. You can’t see it, you can't see your true self. So quietly submit to be painted.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Remember
  • True
  • Artist

• My first Grammy nomination? I was 24 - I was nominated for best new artist of the year.

  

  John Prine
  • Artist
  • Nomination